Epitaph On A Jacobite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJ| To my true king I offered free from stain | A |
| Courage and faith vain faith and courage vain | A |
| For him I threw lands honours wealth away | B |
| And one dear hope that was more prized than they | B |
| For him I languished in a foreign clime | C |
| Grey haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime | C |
| Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees | D |
| And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees | D |
| Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep | E |
| Each morning started from the dream to weep | E |
| Till God who saw me tried too sorely gave | F |
| The resting place I asked an early grave | F |
| Oh thou whom chance leads to this nameless stone | G |
| From that proud country which was once mine own | G |
| By those white cliffs I never more must see | H |
| By that dear language which I spake like thee | H |
| Forget all feuds and shed one English tear | I |
| O'er English dust A broken heart lies here | J |
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
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