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 O2P2O2P2

At last the curse has run its dateA
The heavens grow clear aboveB
And on the purple plains of HateA
We'll build the throne of LoveB
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One great heroic reign divineC
Shall mock the Elysian islesD
And love in arms shall only shineC
Less fair than Love in smilesD
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Old Clio burn thine ancient scrollE
The scroll of Rome and GreeceF
Our war shall be a parableG
On all the texts of peaceF
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And saints look down with eyes of praiseH
Where on our modern fieldI
The new Samaritan forelaysH
The wrongs that other healedI
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What virtue is beyond our prizeH
What deed beneath you sunJ
More Godlike than the prodigiesH
We mortal men have doneJ
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We wearied of the lagging steedK
The dove had not a quillL
To fledge the imaginable speedK
Of our wild shaft of willL
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'Ah could each word be winged with windM
And speech be swift as sight '-
We cursed the long arms of that blindM
Dumb herald on the heightN
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Dark struggling with a mysteryO
He daily hid in shadesH
As a ghost steams up on the eyeP
Begins a Fate and fadesH
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'If like a man dull space could hearQ
If like a man obey '-
We seized this earthly hemisphereR
This senseless skull of clayS
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We drew from Heaven a breath of flameT
And thro' the lifeless wholeE
Did breathe it till the orb becameT
One brain of burning soulE
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As he o'er whom a tyrant reignsH
It waits our sovran wordU
And thinks along the living veinsH
The lightnings of its lordV
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What Force can meet our matchless mightN
What Power is not our slaveW
We bound the angel of the lightN
We scourged him in a caveW
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And when we saw the prisoner pineC
For his immortal landX
We wrung a ransom half divineC
From that celestial handX
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Whose skill the heavy chain subduedY
And all a captive's woeZ
Did tame to such a tempered goodA2
As mortal eyes can knowZ
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Who comes who comes o'er mountains laidB2
Vales lifted straightened waysH
'Tis he the mightier horse we madeB2
To serve our nobler daysH
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But now unheard I saw afarC2
His cloud of windy maneD2
Now level as a blazing starC2
He thunders thro' the plainD2
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The life he needs the food he lovesH
This cold earth bears no moreE2
He fodders on the eternal grovesH
That heard the dragons roarE2
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Strong with the feast he roars and runsH
And in his maw unfurledF2
Evolves the folded fires of sunsH
That lit a grander worldF2
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Yon bird the swiftest in the skyP
Before him sprang but heO
Has passed her as a wind goes byP
A struggler in the seaO
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With forward beak and forward blowsH
She slides back from his sideG2
While ever as the monster goesH
With needless power and prideG2
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Disdainful from his fiery jawsH
He snorts his vital heatH2
And easy as his shadow drawsH
Long drawn the living streetH2
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He's gone Methinks that over himI2
Like Curtius in the abyssH
I see great gulphs close rim to rimI2
And Past and Future kissH
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Oh Man as from the flood sublimeJ2
Some alp rose calm and slowZ
So from the exhaling floods of timeJ2
I see thy stature growZ
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Long since thy royal brow uncrownedH2
Allegiant nature sawH
Long since thine eye of empire frownedH2
The heavenly thrones to aweK2
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And now the monarch's breast apartH2
Divides the sinking sprayS
Fit dome for such gigantic heartH2
As warms so vast a swayS
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Far o'er the watery wilds I seeO
Thy great right arm upsurgeL2
Thy right hand armed with victoryO
Is sunburst on the vergeL2
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Arise arise oh sword and sweepM2
One universal mornN2
Another throe thou labouring DeepM2
And all the god is bornN2
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So sang a youth of glorious bloodH2
Below the wind hawk shook her wingsH
And lower in its kingdom stoodH2
A tower of ancient kingsH
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Above the autumn sky was blueO2
Far round the golden world was fairP2
And gun by gun the ramparts blewO2
A battle on the airP2

Sydney Thompson Dobell



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