Shakespeare And Cervantes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HIHJKK LMLMNN OPOPQQ| Obit rd April | A |
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| Is it not strange that on this common date | B |
| Two titans of their age aye of all Time | C |
| Together should renounce this mortal state | B |
| And rise like gods unsullied and sublime | C |
| Should mutually render up the ghost | D |
| And hand n hand join Jove's celestial host | D |
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| What wondrous welcome from the scribes on high | E |
| Homer and Virgil would be waiting there | F |
| Plato and Aristotle standing nigh | E |
| Petrarch and Dante greet the peerless pair | F |
| And as in harmony they make their bow | G |
| Horace might quip Great timing you'll allow | G |
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| Imagine this transcendant team arrive | H |
| At some hilarious banquet of the gods | I |
| Their nations battled when they were alive | H |
| And they were bitter foes but what's the odd | J |
| Actor and soldier happy hand in hand | K |
| By death close linked like loving brothers stand | K |
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| But how diverse Our Will had gold and gear | L |
| Chattels and land the starshine of success | M |
| The bleak Castilian fought with casque and spear | L |
| Passing his life in prisons more or less | M |
| The Bard of Avon was accounted rich | N |
| Cervantes often bedded in a ditch | N |
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| Yet when I slough this flesh if I could meet | O |
| By sweet fantastic fate one of these two | P |
| In languorous Elysian retreat | O |
| Which would I choose Fair reader which would you | P |
| Well though our William more divinely wrote | Q |
| By gad the lousy Spaniard has my vote | Q |
Robert William Service
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