Genius And Criticism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD ECEC CCCC FCFC GHGH IJIJ FCFC KLKL MNMN FCFC JOJO CPCP CQCQ FFFF PPPPscripsit quidem fata sed sequitur | A |
SENECA | B |
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Of old the Sultan Genius reigned | C |
As Nature meant supreme alone | D |
With mind unchekt and hands unchained | C |
His views his conquests were his own | D |
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But power like his that digs its grave | E |
With its own sceptre could not last | C |
So Genius' self became the slave | E |
Of laws that Genius' self had past | C |
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As Jove who forged the chain of Fate | C |
Was ever after doomed to wear it | C |
His nods his struggles all too late | C |
Qui semel jussit semper paret | C |
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To check young Genius' proud career | F |
The slaves who now his throne invaded | C |
Made Criticism his prime Vizir | F |
And from that hour his glories faded | C |
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Tied down in Legislation's school | G |
Afraid of even his own ambition | H |
His very victories were by rule | G |
And he was great but by permission | H |
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His most heroic deeds the same | I |
That dazzled when spontaneous actions | J |
Now done by law seemed cold and tame | I |
And shorn of all their first attractions | J |
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If he but stirred to take the air | F |
Instant the Vizir's Council sat | C |
Good Lord your Highness can't go there | F |
Bless me your Highness can't do that | C |
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If loving pomp he chose to buy | K |
Rich jewels for his diadem | L |
The taste was bad the price was high | K |
A flower were simpler than a gem | L |
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To please them if he took to flowers | M |
What trifling what unmeaning things | N |
Fit for a woman's toilet hours | M |
But not at all the style for Kings | N |
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If fond of his domestic sphere | F |
He played no more the rambling comet | C |
A dull good sort of man 'twas clear | F |
But as for great or brave far from it | C |
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Did he then look o'er distant oceans | J |
For realms more worthy to enthrone him | O |
Saint Aristotle what wild notions | J |
Serve a 'ne exeat regno' on him | O |
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At length their last and worst to do | C |
They round him placed a guard of watchmen | P |
Reviewers knaves in brown or blue | C |
Turned up with yellow chiefly Scotchmen | P |
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To dog his footsteps all about | C |
Like those in Longwood's prison grounds | Q |
Who at Napoleon's heels rode out | C |
For fear the Conqueror should break bounds | Q |
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Oh for some Champion of his power | F |
Some Ultra spirit to set free | F |
As erst in Shakespeare's sovereign hour | F |
The thunders of his Royalty | F |
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To vindicate his ancient line | P |
The first the true the only one | P |
Of Right eternal and divine | P |
That rules beneath the blessed sun | P |
Thomas Moore
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