The Patriot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCB DEDEF GHGHG IJIJK LMLML KNKNK| An Old Story | A |
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| It was roses roses all the way | B |
| With myrtle mixed in my path like mad | C |
| The house roofs seemed to heave and sway | B |
| The church spires flamed such flags they had | C |
| A year ago on this very day | B |
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| II | - |
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| The air broke into a mist with bells | D |
| The old walls rocked with the crowds and cries | E |
| Had I said Good folks mere noise repels | D |
| But give me your sun from yonder skies | E |
| They had answered And afterward what else | F |
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| III | - |
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| Alack it was I who leaped at the sun | G |
| To give it my loving friends to keep | H |
| Nought man could do have I left undone | G |
| And you see my harvest what I reap | H |
| This very day now a year is run | G |
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| There's nobody on the house tops now | I |
| Just a palsied few at the windows set | J |
| For the best of the sight is all allow | I |
| At the Shambles' Gate or better yet | J |
| By the very scaffold's foot I trow | K |
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| I go in the rain and more than needs | L |
| A rope cuts both my wrists behind | M |
| And I think by the feel my forehead bleeds | L |
| For they fling whoever has a mind | M |
| Stones at me for my year's misdeeds | L |
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| VI | - |
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| Thus I entered Brescia and thus I go | K |
| In such triumphs people have dropped down dead | N |
| Thou paid by the World what dost thou owe | K |
| Me God might have questioned but now instead | N |
| 'Tis God shall requite I am safer so | K |
Robert Browning
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