A Pageant Of Elizabeth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABABCBC DEFE GHGIWritten for quot The Pageant of Parliament quot | A |
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Like Princes crowned they bore them | B |
Like Demi Gods they wrought | A |
When the New World lay before them | B |
In headlong fact and thought | A |
Fate and their foemen proved them | B |
Above all meed of praise | C |
And Gloriana loved them | B |
And Shakespeare wrote them plays | C |
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Now Valour Youth and Life's delight break forth | D |
In flames of wondrous deed and thought sublime | E |
Lightly to mould new worlds or lightly loose | F |
Words that shall shake and shape all after time | E |
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Giants with giants wits with wits engage | G |
And England England England takes the breath | H |
Of morning body and soul till the great Age | G |
Fulfills in one great chord Elizabeth | I |
Rudyard Kipling
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