Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCD EEFGGHF IIJKLKJ MMNEEEN OPEQQQE RRSTTTU IVWTTTWGod save the Rights of Man | A |
Give us a heart to scan | A |
Blessings so dear | B |
Let them be spread around | C |
Wherever man is found | C |
And with the welcome sound | C |
Ravish his ear | D |
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Let us with France agree | E |
And bid the world be free | E |
While tyrants fall | F |
Let the rude savage host | G |
Of their vast numbers boast | G |
Freedom's almight trust | H |
Laughs at them all | F |
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Though hosts of slaves conspire | I |
To quench fair Gallia's fire | I |
Still shall they fail | J |
Though traitors round her rise | K |
Leagu'd with her enemies | L |
To war each patriot flies | K |
And will prevail | J |
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No more is valor's flame | M |
Devoted to a name | M |
Taught to adore | N |
Soldiers of Liberty | E |
Disdain to bow the knee | E |
But ateach Equality | E |
To every shore | N |
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The world at last will join | O |
To aid thy grand design | P |
Dear Liberty | E |
To Russia's frozen lands | Q |
The generous flame expands | Q |
On Afric's burning sands | Q |
Shall man be free | E |
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In this our western world | R |
Be Freedom's flag unfurl'd | R |
Through all its shores | S |
May no destructive blast | T |
Our heaven of joy o'ercast | T |
May Freedom's fabric last | T |
While time endures | U |
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If e'er her cause require | I |
Should tyrants e'er aspire | V |
To aim their stroke | W |
May no proud despot daunt | T |
Should he his standard plant | T |
Freedom will never want | T |
Her hearts of oak | W |
Philip Freneau
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