France: An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I	A
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Ye clouds that far above me float and pause	B
Whose pathless march no mortal may control	C
Ye Ocean Waves that whereso'er ye roll	C
Yield homage only to eternal laws	B
Ye Woods that listen to the night birds singing	D
Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined	E
Save when your own imperious branches swinging	D
Have made a solemn music of the wind	E
Where like a man beloved of God	F
Through glooms which never woodmand trod	F
How oft pursuing fancies holy	G
My moonlight way o'er flowering weeds I wound	H
Inspired beyond the guess of folly	G
By each rude shape and wild unconquerable sound	H
O ye loud Waves and O ye Forests high	A
And O ye Clouds that far above me soared	I
Thou rising Sun thou blue rejoicing Sky	A
Yea every thing that is and will be free	G
Bear witness for me whereso'er ye be	G
With what deep worship I have still adored	I
The spirit of divinest Liberty	G
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II	A
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When France in wrath her giant limbs upreared	G
And with that oath which smote air earth and sea	G
Stamped her strong foot and said she would be free	G
Bear witness for me how I hoped and feared	G
With what a joy my lofty gratulation	J
Unawed I sang amid a slavish band	G
And when to whelm the disenchanted nation	J
Like fiends embattled by a wizard's wand	G
The Monarchs marched in evil day	G
And Britain joined the dire array	G
Though dear her shores and circling ocean	J
Though many friendships many youthful loves	K
Had swoln the patriot emotion	J
And flung a magic light o'er all the hills and groves	L
Yet still my voice unaltered sang defeat	G
To all that braved the tyrant quelling lance	M
And shame too long delayed and vain retreat	G
For ne'er O Liberty with parial aim	N
I dimmed thy light or damped thy holy flame	N
But blessed the paeans of delivered France	M
And hung my head and wept at Britain's name	N
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III	A
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'And what ' I said 'though Blasphemy's loud scream	O
With that sweet music of deliverance strove	P
Though all the fierce and drunken passions wove	P
A dance more wild than e'er was maniac's dream	O
Ye storms that round the dawning East assembled	G
The Sun was rising though ye hid his light '	-
And when to soothe my soul that hoped and trembled	G
The dissonance ceased and all that seemed calm and bright	G
When France her front deep scarr'd and gory	G
Concealed with clustering wreaths of glory	G
When unsupportably advancing	D
Her arm made mockery of the warrior's ramp	Q
While timid looks of fury glancing	D
Domestic treason crushed beneath her fatal stamp	Q
Writhed like a wounded dragon in his gore	R
Then I reproached my fears that would not flee	G
'And soon ' I said 'shall Wisdom teach her lore	R
In the low huts of them that toil and groan	J
And conquering by her happiness alone	J
Shall France compel the nations to be free	G
Till love and Joy look round and call the Earth their own '	-
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Forgive me Freedom O forgive those dreams	S
I hear thy voice I hear thy loud lament	G
From bleak Helvetia's icy caverns sent	G
I hear thy groans upon her blood stained streams	S
Heroes that for your peaceful country perished	G
And ye that fleeing spot your mountain snows	T
With bleeding wounds forgive me that I cherished	G
One thought that ever blessed your cruel foes	T
To scatter rage and traitorous guilt	G
Where Peace her jealous home had built	G
A patriot race to disinherit	G
Of all that made their stormy wilds so dear	U
And with inexpiable spirit	G
To taint the bloodless freedom of the mountaineer	U
O France that mockest Heaven adulterous blind	G
And patriot only in pernicious toils	V
Are these thy boasts Champion of human kind	G
To mix with Kings in the low lust of sway	G
Yell in the hunt and share the murderous prey	G
To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils	V
From freemen torn to tempt and to betray	G
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The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain	J
Slaves by their own compulsion In mad game	N
They burst their manacles and wear the name	N
Of Freedom graven on a heavier chain	J
O Liberty with profitless endeavour	W
Have I pursued thee many a weary hour	W
But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain nor ever	W
Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power	W
Alike from all howe'er they praise thee	G
Nor prayer nor boastful name delays thee	G
Alike from Priestcraft's harpy minions	X
And factious Blasphemy's obscener slaves	Y
Thou speedest on thy subtle pinions	Y
The guide of homeless winds and playmate of the waves	Y
And there I felt thee on that sea cliff's verge	Z
Whose pines scarce travelled by the breeze above	A2
Had made one murmur with the distant surge	Z
Yes while I stood and gazed my temples bare	B2
And shot my being through earth sea and air	B2
Possessing all things with intensest love	A2
O Liberty my spirit felt thee there	B2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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