Instans Tyrannus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC A DDEEFF A GGH IIJJIIKK L BBMMJJLLLLNN L OOKKPPLLQQRSEETTK L UUVVWWXX L YYZZA2B2YYYYYY| I | A |
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| Of the million or two more or less | B |
| I rule and possess | B |
| One man for some cause undefined | C |
| Was least to my mind | C |
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| II | A |
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| I struck him he grovelled of course | D |
| For what was his force | D |
| I pinned him to earth with my weight | E |
| And persistence of hate | E |
| And he lay would not moan would not curse | F |
| As his lot might be worse | F |
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| III | A |
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| Were the object less mean would he stand | G |
| At the swing of my hand | G |
| For obscurity helps him and blots | H |
| The hole where he squats '' | - |
| So I set my five wits on the stretch | I |
| To inveigle the wretch | I |
| All in vain Gold and jewels I threw | J |
| Still he couched there perdue | J |
| I tempted his blood and his flesh | I |
| Hid in roses my mesh | I |
| Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth | K |
| Still he kept to his filth | K |
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| IV | L |
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| Had he kith now or kin were access | B |
| To his heart did I press | B |
| Just a son or a mother to seize | M |
| No such booty as these | M |
| Were it simply a friend to pursue | J |
| 'Mid my million or two | J |
| Who could pay me in person or pelf | L |
| What he owes me himself | L |
| No I could not but smile through my chafe | L |
| For the fellow lay safe | L |
| As his mates do the midge and the nit | N |
| Through minuteness to wit | N |
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| V | L |
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| Then a humour more great took its place | O |
| At the thought of his face | O |
| The droop the low cares of the mouth | K |
| The trouble uncouth | K |
| 'Twixt the brows all that air one is fain | P |
| To put out of its pain | P |
| And no '' I admonished myself | L |
| Is one mocked by an elf | L |
| Is one baffled by toad or by rat | Q |
| The gravamen's in that | Q |
| How the lion who crouches to suit | R |
| His back to my foot | S |
| Would admire that I stand in debate | E |
| But the small turns the great | E |
| If it vexes you that is the thing | T |
| Toad or rat vex the king | T |
| Though I waste half my realm to unearth | K |
| Toad or rat 'tis well worth '' | - |
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| VI | L |
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| So I soberly laid my last plan | U |
| To extinguish the man | U |
| Round his creep hole with never a break | V |
| Ran my fires for his sake | V |
| Over head did my thunder combine | W |
| With my underground mine | W |
| Till I looked from my labour content | X |
| To enjoy the event | X |
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| VII | L |
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| When sudden how think ye the end | Y |
| Did I say without friend'' | Y |
| Say rather from marge to blue marge | Z |
| The whole sky grew his targe | Z |
| With the sun's self for visible boss | A2 |
| While an Arm ran across | B2 |
| Which the earth heaved beneath like a breast | Y |
| Where the wretch was safe prest | Y |
| Do you see Just my vengeance complete | Y |
| The man sprang to his feet | Y |
| Stood erect caught at God's skirts and prayed | Y |
| So I was afraid | Y |
Robert Browning
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