Tennyson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBC A DEEFFG A HIIHHI CJJCCC| I | A |
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| Shakespeare and Milton what third blazoned name | B |
| Shall lips of after ages link to these | C |
| His who beside the wide encircling seas | C |
| Was England's voice her voice with one acclaim | B |
| For threescore years whose word of praise was fame | B |
| Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities | C |
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| II | A |
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| What strain was his in that Crimean war | D |
| A bugle call in battle a low breath | E |
| Plaintive and sweet above the fields of death | E |
| So year by year the music rolled afar | F |
| From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar | F |
| Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath | G |
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| III | A |
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| Others shall have their little space of time | H |
| Their proper niche and bust then fade away | I |
| Into the darkness poets of a day | I |
| But thou O builder of enduring rhyme | H |
| Thou shalt not pass Thy fame in every clime | H |
| On earth shall live where saxon speech has sway | I |
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| IV | - |
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| Waft me this verse across the winter sea | C |
| Through light and dark through mist and blinding sleet | J |
| O winter winds and lay it at his feet | J |
| Though the poor gift betray my poverty | C |
| At his feet lay it it may chance that he | C |
| Will find no gift where reverence is unmeet | C |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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