To Goethe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS| Goethe who saw and who foretold | A |
| A world revealed | B |
| New springing from its ashes old | A |
| On Valmy field | B |
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| When Prussia's sullen hosts retired | C |
| Before the advance | D |
| Of ragged starved but freedom fired | E |
| Soldiers of France | D |
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| If still those clear Olympian eyes | F |
| Through smoke and rage | G |
| Your ancient Europe scrutinize | F |
| What think you Sage | G |
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| Are these the armies of the Light | H |
| That seek to drown | I |
| The light of lands where freedom's fight | H |
| Has won renown | I |
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| Will they blot also out your name | J |
| Because you praise | K |
| All works of men that shrine the flame | J |
| Of beauty's ways | K |
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| Wherever men have proved them great | L |
| Nor drunk with pride | M |
| Saw but a single swollen State | L |
| And naught beside | M |
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| Nor dreamed of drilling Europe's mind | N |
| With threat and blow | O |
| The way professors have designed | N |
| Genius should go | O |
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| Or shall a people rise at length | P |
| And see and shake | Q |
| The fetters from its giant strength | P |
| And grandly break | Q |
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| This pedantry of feud and force | R |
| To man untrue | S |
| Thundering and blundering on its course | R |
| To death and rue | S |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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