Imperial Revels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFFE GHIHJJKLLM NMOMPP QQR STSTMMMMMM| Cheer courtiers round the splendid spread | A |
| The board that groans with shame and plate | B |
| Still fawning to the sham crowned head | A |
| That hopes its brass will turn its fate | B |
| Drink till the comer last is full | C |
| And never hear in revels' lull | D |
| Grim Vengeance forging arrows fleet | E |
| Whilst I gnaw at the crust | F |
| Of Exile in the dust | F |
| But honour makes it sweet | E |
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| Ye cheaters in the trickster's fame | G |
| Who dupe yourself and trickster chief | H |
| In blazing cafes spend the gain | I |
| But draw the blind lest at his thief | H |
| Some fresh made beggar gives a glance | J |
| And interrupts with steel the dance | J |
| But let him toilsomely tramp by | K |
| As I myself afar | L |
| Follow no gilded car | L |
| In ways of honesty | M |
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| Ye troopers who shot mothers down | N |
| And marshals whose brave cannonade | M |
| Broke infant arms and split the stone | O |
| Where slumbered age and guileless maid | M |
| Though blood is the cup you fill | P |
| Pretend it 'rosy' wine and still | P |
| Hail cannon 'king ' and steel the 'queen ' | - |
| But I prefer to sup | Q |
| From Philip Sidney's cup | Q |
| True soldier's draught serene | R |
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| O workmen seen by me sublime | S |
| When wrenched ye from the tyrant peace | T |
| Can you be dazed by tinselled crime | S |
| And find no foe beneath the fleece | T |
| Build places where fortunes feast | M |
| And on your backs bear loads of beast | M |
| Though once such masters you made flee | M |
| But then like me you ate | M |
| Food of an endless fete | M |
| The bread of Liberty | M |
Victor Marie Hugo
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