Address To Albion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHI JHJH KLKL MNMN GJIJ DODOTo thee O Albion be the tribute paid | A |
Which sympathy demands the patriot tear | B |
While echo'd forth to thy remotest shade | A |
Rebellion's menace sounds in every ear | C |
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Though Gallia's vaunts should fill the trembling skies | D |
'Till nature's undiscover'd regions start | E |
At the rude clamor yet shouldst thou despise | D |
While thy brave subjects own a common heart | E |
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But lo fresh streaming from the Hibernian height | F |
Her own red torrent wild eyed faction pours | G |
While 'mid her falling ranks ignobly great | H |
Loud vengeance raves and desperation scours | I |
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Denouncing murderous strife the rebel train | J |
Wave their red ensigns of inhuman hate | H |
O'er every hamlet every peaceful plain | J |
Rejecting reason and despising fate | H |
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Oh that again our raptur'd eyes could see | K |
Their ripening crops bloom yellow o'er the land | L |
Their happy shepherds like their pasture free | K |
No more a factious race a ruffian band | L |
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That albion once again with concord blest | M |
May still support that great that glorious name | N |
Which ardent glows in every patriot's breast | M |
And crowns her hoary cliffs with matchless fame | N |
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Then then might foreign foes around our shores | G |
Pour the big tempest of their arms in vain | J |
Then might they learn that freedom still is ours | I |
That Britons still control the subject main | J |
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Oh all ye kindred pow'rs awake arise | D |
On boundless glory's giant pinions soar | O |
Let Gallia tremble while the sounding skies | D |
Proclaim us free 'till time shall be no more | O |
Thomas Gent
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