Remonstrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLN ONOP QBQB RSRS| After a Conversation with Lord John Russell in which he had intimated some Idea of giving up all political Pursuits | A |
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| What thou with thy genius thy youth and thy name | B |
| Thou born of a Russell whose instinct to run | C |
| The accustomed career of thy sires is the same | B |
| As the eaglet's to soar with his eyes on the sun | C |
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| Whose nobility comes to thee stampt with a seal | D |
| Far far more ennobling than monarch e'er set | E |
| With the blood of thy race offered up for the weal | D |
| Of a nation that swears by that martyrdom yet | E |
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| Shalt thou be faint hearted and turn from the strife | F |
| From the mighty arena where all that is grand | G |
| And devoted and pure and adorning in life | F |
| 'Tis for high thoughted spirits like thine to command | G |
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| Oh no never dream it while good men despair | H |
| Between tyrants and traitors and timid men bow | I |
| Never think for an instant thy country can spare | H |
| Such a light from her darkening horizon as thou | I |
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| With a spirit as meek as the gentlest of those | J |
| Who in life's sunny valley lie sheltered and warm | K |
| Yet bold and heroic as ever yet rose | J |
| To the top cliffs of Fortune and breasted her storm | K |
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| With an ardor for liberty fresh as in youth | L |
| It first kindles the bard and gives life to his lyre | M |
| Yet mellowed even now by that mildness of truth | L |
| Which tempers but chills not the patriot fire | N |
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| With an eloquence not like those rills from a height | O |
| Which sparkle and foam and in vapor are o'er | N |
| But a current that works out its way into light | O |
| Thro' the filtering recesses of thought and of lore | P |
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| Thus gifted thou never canst sleep in the shade | Q |
| If the stirrings of Genius the music of fame | B |
| And the charms of thy cause have not power to persuade | Q |
| Yet think how to Freedom thou'rt pledged by thy Name | B |
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| Like the boughs of that laurel by Delphi's decree | R |
| Set apart for the Fane and its service divine | S |
| So the branches that spring from the old Russell tree | R |
| Are by Liberty claimed for the use of her Shrine | S |
Thomas Moore
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