The Young Man's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI HJHJ KLKL M MN OHPH Q RS TETE HUHV NWNW CXCX YZA2Z B2HB2H C2D2C2D2 HE2HE2 HF2HF2 POPO HG2HG2 HH2HH2 I2HI2H J2ZJ2Z H2HH2K2 H2SH2S OL2OL2 M2N2M2N2 H2HH2H O2P2O2P2At last the curse has run its date | A |
The heavens grow clear above | B |
And on the purple plains of Hate | A |
We'll build the throne of Love | B |
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One great heroic reign divine | C |
Shall mock the Elysian isles | D |
And love in arms shall only shine | C |
Less fair than Love in smiles | D |
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Old Clio burn thine ancient scroll | E |
The scroll of Rome and Greece | F |
Our war shall be a parable | G |
On all the texts of peace | F |
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And saints look down with eyes of praise | H |
Where on our modern field | I |
The new Samaritan forelays | H |
The wrongs that other healed | I |
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What virtue is beyond our prize | H |
What deed beneath you sun | J |
More Godlike than the prodigies | H |
We mortal men have done | J |
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We wearied of the lagging steed | K |
The dove had not a quill | L |
To fledge the imaginable speed | K |
Of our wild shaft of will | L |
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'Ah could each word be winged with wind | M |
And speech be swift as sight ' | - |
We cursed the long arms of that blind | M |
Dumb herald on the height | N |
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Dark struggling with a mystery | O |
He daily hid in shades | H |
As a ghost steams up on the eye | P |
Begins a Fate and fades | H |
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'If like a man dull space could hear | Q |
If like a man obey ' | - |
We seized this earthly hemisphere | R |
This senseless skull of clay | S |
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We drew from Heaven a breath of flame | T |
And thro' the lifeless whole | E |
Did breathe it till the orb became | T |
One brain of burning soul | E |
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As he o'er whom a tyrant reigns | H |
It waits our sovran word | U |
And thinks along the living veins | H |
The lightnings of its lord | V |
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What Force can meet our matchless might | N |
What Power is not our slave | W |
We bound the angel of the light | N |
We scourged him in a cave | W |
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And when we saw the prisoner pine | C |
For his immortal land | X |
We wrung a ransom half divine | C |
From that celestial hand | X |
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Whose skill the heavy chain subdued | Y |
And all a captive's woe | Z |
Did tame to such a tempered good | A2 |
As mortal eyes can know | Z |
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Who comes who comes o'er mountains laid | B2 |
Vales lifted straightened ways | H |
'Tis he the mightier horse we made | B2 |
To serve our nobler days | H |
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But now unheard I saw afar | C2 |
His cloud of windy mane | D2 |
Now level as a blazing star | C2 |
He thunders thro' the plain | D2 |
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The life he needs the food he loves | H |
This cold earth bears no more | E2 |
He fodders on the eternal groves | H |
That heard the dragons roar | E2 |
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Strong with the feast he roars and runs | H |
And in his maw unfurled | F2 |
Evolves the folded fires of suns | H |
That lit a grander world | F2 |
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Yon bird the swiftest in the sky | P |
Before him sprang but he | O |
Has passed her as a wind goes by | P |
A struggler in the sea | O |
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With forward beak and forward blows | H |
She slides back from his side | G2 |
While ever as the monster goes | H |
With needless power and pride | G2 |
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Disdainful from his fiery jaws | H |
He snorts his vital heat | H2 |
And easy as his shadow draws | H |
Long drawn the living street | H2 |
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He's gone Methinks that over him | I2 |
Like Curtius in the abyss | H |
I see great gulphs close rim to rim | I2 |
And Past and Future kiss | H |
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Oh Man as from the flood sublime | J2 |
Some alp rose calm and slow | Z |
So from the exhaling floods of time | J2 |
I see thy stature grow | Z |
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Long since thy royal brow uncrowned | H2 |
Allegiant nature saw | H |
Long since thine eye of empire frowned | H2 |
The heavenly thrones to awe | K2 |
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And now the monarch's breast apart | H2 |
Divides the sinking spray | S |
Fit dome for such gigantic heart | H2 |
As warms so vast a sway | S |
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Far o'er the watery wilds I see | O |
Thy great right arm upsurge | L2 |
Thy right hand armed with victory | O |
Is sunburst on the verge | L2 |
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Arise arise oh sword and sweep | M2 |
One universal morn | N2 |
Another throe thou labouring Deep | M2 |
And all the god is born | N2 |
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So sang a youth of glorious blood | H2 |
Below the wind hawk shook her wings | H |
And lower in its kingdom stood | H2 |
A tower of ancient kings | H |
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Above the autumn sky was blue | O2 |
Far round the golden world was fair | P2 |
And gun by gun the ramparts blew | O2 |
A battle on the air | P2 |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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