Tell's Birth-place. Imitated From Stolberg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC ADDEE AF GH FIJKK FLLMM FNNOJ FPPQQ| I | A |
| Mark this holy chapel well | B |
| The birth place this of William Tell | B |
| Here where stands God's altar dread | C |
| Stood his parent's marriage bed | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Here first an infant to her breast | D |
| Him his loving mother prest | D |
| And kissed the babe and blessed the day | E |
| And prayed as mothers used to pray | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| 'Vouchsafe him health O God and give | F |
| The child thy servant still to live ' | - |
| But God had destined to do more | G |
| Through him than through an armed power | H |
| - | |
| IV | F |
| God gave him reverence of laws | I |
| Yet stirring blood in Freedom's cause | J |
| A spirit to his rocks akin | K |
| The eye of the hawk and the fire therein | K |
| - | |
| V | F |
| To Nature and to Holy Writ | L |
| Alone did God the boy commit | L |
| Where flashed and roared the torrent oft | M |
| His soul found wings and soared aloft | M |
| - | |
| VI | F |
| The straining oar and chamois chase | N |
| Had formed his limbs to strength and grace | N |
| On wave and wind the boy would toss | O |
| Was great nor knew how great he was | J |
| - | |
| VII | F |
| He knew not that his chosen hand | P |
| Made strong by God his native land | P |
| Would rescue from the shameful yoke | Q |
| Of Slavery the which he broke | Q |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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