The Republican Genius Of Europe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFGGH CIJJI GCCGFFC| Emporers and kings in vain you strive | A |
| Your torments to conceal | B |
| The age is come that shakes your thrones | C |
| Tramples in dust despotic crowns | C |
| And bids the sceptre fail | D |
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| In western worlds the flame began | E |
| From thence to France it flew | F |
| Through Europe now it takes its way | G |
| Beams an insufferable day | G |
| And lays all tyrants low | H |
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| Genius fo France pursue the chace | C |
| Till Reason's laws restore | I |
| Man to be Man in every clime | J |
| That Being active great sublime | J |
| Debas'd in dust no more | I |
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| In dreadful pomp he takes his way | G |
| O'er ruin'd crowns demolish'd thrones | C |
| Pale tyrants shrink before his blaze | C |
| Round him terrific lightenings play | G |
| With eyes of fire he looks then through | F |
| Crushes the vile despotic crew | F |
| And Pride in ruin lays | C |
Philip Freneau
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