To Goethe 21 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA B C DC D E FE F G HG H I JI J| Will they blot also out your name | A |
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| Because you praise | B |
| All works of men that shrine the flame | A |
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| Of beauty's ways | B |
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| Wherever men have proved them great | C |
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| Nor drunk with pride | D |
| Saw but a single swollen State | C |
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| And naught beside | D |
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| Nor dreamed of drilling Europe's mind | E |
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| With threat and blow | F |
| The way professors have designed | E |
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| Genius should go | F |
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| Or shall a people rise at length | G |
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| And see and shake | H |
| The fetters from its giant strength | G |
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| And grandly break | H |
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| This pedantry of feud and force | I |
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| To man untrue | J |
| Thundering and blundering on its course | I |
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| To death and rue | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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