The Pleasures Of Hope (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJJKK LLMMIINN LLOONNPP QQRRSSTTUU EESSVVWWNN MMLLXXLLSS| PART I excerpt | A |
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| Where barbarous hordes on Scythian mountains roam | C |
| Truth Mercy Freedom yet shall find a home | C |
| Where'er degraded Nature bleeds and pines | D |
| From Guinea's coast to Sibir's dreary mines | D |
| Truth shall pervade the unfathomed darkness there | E |
| And light the dreadful features of despair | E |
| Hark the stern captive spurns his heavy load | F |
| And asks the image back that Heaven bestowed | F |
| Fierce in his eye the fire of valour burns | G |
| And as the slave departs the man returns | G |
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| Oh sacred Truth thy triumph ceased awhile | H |
| And Hope thy sister ceased with thee to smile | H |
| When leagued Oppression poured to Northern wars | I |
| Her whiskered pandoors and her fierce hussars | I |
| Waved her dread standard to the breeze of morn | J |
| Pealed her loud drum and twanged her trumpet horn | J |
| Tumultuous horror brooded o'er her van | K |
| Presaging wrath to Poland and to man | K |
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| Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed | L |
| Wide o'er the fields a waste of ruin laid | L |
| Oh Heaven he cried my bleeding country save | M |
| Is there no hand on high to shield the brave | M |
| Yet though destruction sweep these lovely plains | I |
| Rise fellow men our country yet remains | I |
| By that dread name we wave the sword on high | N |
| And swear for her to live with her to die | N |
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| He said and on the rampart heights arrayed | L |
| His trusty warriors few but undismayed | L |
| Firm paced and slow a horrid front they form | O |
| Still as the breeze but dreadful as the storm | O |
| Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly | N |
| Revenge or death the watch word and reply | N |
| Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm | P |
| And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm | P |
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| In vain alas in vain ye gallant few | Q |
| From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew | Q |
| Oh bloodiest picture in the book of Time | R |
| Sarmatia fell unwept without a crime | R |
| Found not a generous friend a pitying foe | S |
| Strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe | S |
| Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear | T |
| Closed her bright eye and curbed her high career | T |
| Hope for a season bade the world farewell | U |
| And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell | U |
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| The sun went down nor ceased the carnage there | E |
| Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air | E |
| On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow | S |
| His blood dyed waters murmuring far below | S |
| The storm prevails the rampart yields a way | V |
| Bursts the wide cry of horror and dismay | V |
| Hark as the smouldering piles with thunder fall | W |
| A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call | W |
| Earth shook red meteors flashed along the sky | N |
| And conscious Nature shuddered at the cry | N |
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| Oh righteous Heaven ere Freedom found a grave | M |
| Why slept the sword omnipotent to save | M |
| Where was thine arm O Vengeance where thy rod | L |
| That smote the foes of Zion and of God | L |
| That crushed proud Ammon when his iron car | X |
| Was yoked in wrath and thundered from afar | X |
| Where was the storm that slumbered till the host | L |
| Of blood stained Pharaoh left their trembling coast | L |
| Then bade the deep in wild commotion flow | S |
| And heaved an ocean on their march below | S |
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Thomas Campbell
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