Milton-s Appeal To Cromwell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCDAEFGHIJJJK IJJLJMMNOLPAQ PLJJLRSTUVWIJMILXMJJ YAZA2EYB2B2JLMMYB2JB 2B2MLB2MJJJL YC2PMMLVDJANAJAD2JB2 D2PJB2JB2B2IE2JJJNJJ JB2F2IIICROMWELL Act III sc iv | A |
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Stay I no longer can contain myself | A |
But cry you Look on John who bares his mind | B |
To Oliver to Cromwell Milton speaks | C |
Despite a kindling eye and marvel deep | D |
A voice is lifted up without your leave | A |
For I was never placed at council board | E |
To speak my promptings When awed strangers come | F |
Who've seen Fox Mazarin wince at the stings | G |
In my epistles and bring admiring votes | H |
Of learned colleges they strain to see | I |
My figure in the glare the usher utters | J |
'Behold and hearken that's my Lord Protector's | J |
Cousin that his son in law that next' who cares | J |
Some perfumed puppet 'Milton ' 'He in black | K |
Yon silent scribe who trims their eloquence ' | - |
Still 'chronicling small beer ' such is my duty | I |
Yea one whose thunder roared through martyr bones | J |
Till Pope and Louis Grand quaked on their thrones | J |
And echoed 'Vengeance for the Vaudois ' where | L |
The Sultan slumbers sick with scent of roses | J |
He is but the mute in this seraglio | M |
'Pure' Cromwell's Council | M |
But to be dumb and blind is overmuch | N |
Impatient Issachar kicks at the load | O |
Yet diadems are burdens painfuller | L |
And I would spare thee that sore imposition | P |
Dear brother Noll I plead against thyself | A |
Thou aim'st to be a king and in thine heart | Q |
What fool has said 'There is no king but thou ' | - |
For thee the multitude waged war and won | P |
The end thou art of wrestlings and of prayer | L |
Of sleepless watch long marches hunger tears | J |
And blood prolifically spilled homes lordless | J |
And homeless lords The mass must always suffer | L |
That one should reign the collar's but newly clamp'd | R |
And nothing but the name thereon is changed | S |
Master still masters mark you not the red | T |
Of shame unutterable in my sightless white | U |
Still hear me Cromwell speaking for your sake | V |
These fifteen years we to you whole devoted | W |
Have sought for Liberty to give it thee | I |
To make our interests your huckster gains | J |
The king a lion slain that you may flay | M |
And wear the robe well worthily I say't | I |
For I will not abase my brother | L |
No I would keep him in the realm serene | X |
My own ideal of heroes loved o'er Israel | M |
And higher placed by me than all the others | J |
And such for tinkling titles hollow haloes | J |
Like that around yon painted brow thou thou | Y |
Apostle hero saint dishonor thyself | A |
And snip and trim the flag of Naseby field | Z |
As scarf on which the maid of honor's dog | A2 |
Will yelp some summer afternoon That sword | E |
Shrink into a sceptre brilliant bauble Thou | Y |
Thrown on a lonely rock in storm of state | B2 |
Brain turned by safety's miracle thou risest | B2 |
Upon the tott'ring stone whilst ocean ebbs | J |
And reeking of no storms to come to morrow | L |
Or to morrow deem that a certain pedestal | M |
Whereon thou'lt be adored for e'er e'en while | M |
It shakes o'ersets the rider Tremble thou | Y |
For he who dazzles makes men Samson blind | B2 |
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss | J |
E'en at the whelming ruin Then what word | B2 |
Of answer from your wreck when I demand | B2 |
Account of Cromwell glory of the people | M |
Smothered in ashes through the dust thou'lt hear | L |
'What didst thou with thy virtue ' Will it respond | B2 |
'When battered helm is doffed how soft is purple | M |
On which to lay the head lulled by the praise | J |
Of thousand fluttering fans of flatterers | J |
Wearied of war horse gratefully one glides | J |
In gilded barge or in crowned velvet car | L |
From gay Whitehall to gloomy Temple Bar ' | - |
Where had you slipt that head were bleaching now | Y |
And that same rabble splitting for a hedge | C2 |
Had joined their rows to cheer the active headsman | P |
Perchance in mockery they'd gird the skull | M |
With a hop leaf crown Bitter the brewing Noll | M |
Are crowns the end all of ambition Remember | L |
Charles Stuart and that they who make can break | V |
This same Whitehall may black its front with crape | D |
And this broad window be the portal twice | J |
To lead upon a scaffold Frown or laugh | A |
Laugh on as they did at Cassandra's speech | N |
But mark the prophetess was right Still laugh | A |
Like the credulous Ethiop in his faith in stars | J |
But give one thought to Stuart two for yourself | A |
In his appointed hour all was forthcoming | D2 |
Judge axe and deathsman veiled and my poor eyes | J |
Descry as would thou saw'st a figure veiled | B2 |
Uplooming there afar like sunrise coming | D2 |
With blade that ne'er spared Judas 'midst free brethren | P |
Stretch not the hand of Cromwell for the prize | J |
Meant not for him nor his Thou growest old | B2 |
The people are ever young Like her i' the chase | J |
Who drave a dart into her lover embowered | B2 |
Piercing the incense clouds the popular shaft | B2 |
May slay thee in a random shot at Tyranny | I |
Man friend remain a Cromwell in thy name | E2 |
Rule and if thy son be worthy he and his | J |
So rule the rest for ages be it grander thus | J |
To be a Cromwell than a Carolus | J |
No lapdog combed by wantons but the watch | N |
Upon the freedom that we won Dismiss | J |
Your flatterers let no harpings no gay songs | J |
Prevent your calm dictation of good laws | J |
To guard to fortify and keep enlinked | B2 |
England and Freedom Be thine old self alone | F2 |
And make above all else accorded me | I |
My most desired claim on all posterity | I |
That thou in Milton's verse wert foremost of the free | I |
Victor Marie Hugo
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