Fragments Of College Exercises Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEE FFGGHHII A JKLL MMNN OOPP| Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus JUV | A |
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| Mark those proud boasters of a splendid line | B |
| Like gilded ruins mouldering while they shine | B |
| How heavy sits that weight of alien show | C |
| Like martial helm upon an infant's brow | D |
| Those borrowed splendors whose contrasting light | E |
| Throws back the native shades in deeper night | E |
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| Ask the proud train who glory's train pursue | F |
| Where are the arts by which that glory grew | F |
| The genuine virtues with that eagle gaze | G |
| Sought young Renown in all her orient blaze | G |
| Where is the heart by chymic truth refined | H |
| The exploring soul whose eye had read mankind | H |
| Where are the links that twined with heavenly art | I |
| His country's interest round the patriot's heart | I |
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| Justum bellum quibus necessarium et pia arma quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur spes LIVY | A |
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| Is there no call no consecrating cause | J |
| Approved by Heav'n ordained by nature's laws | K |
| Where justice flies the herald of our way | L |
| And truth's pure beams upon the banners play | L |
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| Yes there's a call sweet as an angel's breath | M |
| To slumbering babes or innocence in death | M |
| And urgent as the tongue of Heaven within | N |
| When the mind's balance trembles upon sin | N |
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| Oh 'tis our country's voice whose claim should meet | O |
| An echo in the soul's most deep retreat | O |
| Along the heart's responding chords should run | P |
| Nor let a tone there vibrate but the one | P |
Thomas Moore
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