Ode On The Departed Regency Bill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGFHIJIKKLL KKMNKKOPQQRRSSTKKKUU VWKXKXKKYUZZVVKKA2A2 B2B2C2D2C2D2B2E2B2TB 2B2KK F2G2H2G2| DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years | A |
| Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears | A |
| Whether thy airy insubstantial shade | B |
| The rights of sepulture now duly paid | B |
| Spread abroad its hideous form | C |
| On the roaring civil storm | C |
| Deafening din and warring rage | D |
| Factions wild with factions wage | D |
| Or under ground deep sunk profound | E |
| Among the demons of the earth | F |
| With groans that make the mountains shake | G |
| Thou mourn thy ill starr'd blighted birth | F |
| Or in the uncreated Void | H |
| Where seeds of future being fight | I |
| With lessen'd step thou wander wide | J |
| To greet thy Mother Ancient Night | I |
| And as each jarring monster mass is past | K |
| Fond recollect what once thou wast | K |
| In manner due beneath this sacred oak | L |
| Hear Spirit hear thy presence I invoke | L |
| By a Monarch's heaven struck fate | K |
| By a disunited State | K |
| By a generous Prince's wrongs | M |
| By a Senate's strife of tongues | N |
| By a Premier's sullen pride | K |
| Louring on the changing tide | K |
| By dread Thurlow's powers to awe | O |
| Rhetoric blasphemy and law | P |
| By the turbulent ocean | Q |
| A Nation's commotion | Q |
| By the harlot caresses | R |
| Of borough addresses | R |
| By days few and evil | S |
| Thy portion poor devil | S |
| By Power Wealth and Show | T |
| The Gods by men adored | K |
| By nameless Poverty | K |
| Their hell abhorred | K |
| By all they hope by all they fear | U |
| Hear and appear | U |
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| Stare not on me thou ghastly Power | V |
| Nor grim with chained defiance lour | W |
| No Babel structure would I build | K |
| Where order exil'd from his native sway | X |
| Confusion may the REGENT sceptre wield | K |
| While all would rule and none obey | X |
| Go to the world of man relate | K |
| The story of thy sad eventful fate | K |
| And call presumptuous Hope to hear | Y |
| And bid him check his blind career | U |
| And tell the sore prest sons of Care | Z |
| Never never to despair | Z |
| Paint Charles' speed on wings of fire | V |
| The object of his fond desire | V |
| Beyond his boldest hopes at hand | K |
| Paint all the triumph of the Portland Band | K |
| Mark how they lift the joy exulting voice | A2 |
| And how their num'rous creditors rejoice | A2 |
| But just as hopes to warm enjoyment rise | B2 |
| Cry CONVALESCENCE and the vision flies | B2 |
| Then next pourtray a dark'ning twilight gloom | C2 |
| Eclipsing sad a gay rejoicing morn | D2 |
| While proud Ambition to th' untimely tomb | C2 |
| By gnashing grim despairing fiends is borne | D2 |
| Paint ruin in the shape of high D undas | B2 |
| Gaping with giddy terror o'er the brow | E2 |
| In vain he struggles the fates behind him press | B2 |
| And clam'rous hell yawns for her prey below | T |
| How fallen That whose pride late scaled the skies | B2 |
| And This like Lucifer no more to rise | B2 |
| Again pronounce the powerful word | K |
| See Day triumphant from the night restored | K |
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| Then know this truth ye Sons of Men | F2 |
| Thus ends thy moral tale | G2 |
| Your darkest terrors may be vain | H2 |
| Your brightest hopes may fail | G2 |
Robert Burns
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