Napoleon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDBDE CFCGFBFBB HCHCCGCGG IJIJJCJCC| Angel or demon thou whether of light | A |
| The minister or darkness still dost sway | B |
| This age of ours thine eagle's soaring flight | A |
| Bears us all breathless after it away | B |
| The eye that from thy presence fain would stry | C |
| Shuns thee in vain thy mighty shadow thrown | D |
| Rests on all pictures of the living day | B |
| And on the threshold of our time alone | D |
| Dazzling yet sombre stands thy form Napoleon | E |
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| Thus when the admiring stranger's steps explore | C |
| The subject lands that 'neath Vesuvius be | F |
| Whether he wind along the enchanting shore | C |
| To Portici from fair Parthenope | G |
| Or lingering long in dreamy reverie | F |
| O'er loveliest Ischia's od'rous isle he stray | B |
| Wooed by whose breath the soft and am'rous sea | F |
| Seems like some languishing sultana's lay | B |
| A voice for very sweets that scarce can win its way | B |
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| Him whether Paestum's solemn fane detain | H |
| Shrouding his soul with meditation's power | C |
| Or at Pozzuloil to the sprightly strain | H |
| Of tarantella danced 'neath Tuscan tower | C |
| Listening he while away the evening hour | C |
| Or wake the echoes mournful lone and deep | G |
| Of that sad city in its dreaming bower | C |
| By the volcano seized where mansions keep | G |
| The likeness which they wore at that last fatal sleep | G |
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| Or be his bark at Posillippo laid | I |
| While as the swarthy boatman at his side | J |
| Chants Tasso's lays to Virgil's pleased shade | I |
| Ever he sees throughout that circuit wide | J |
| From shaded nook or sunny lawn espied | J |
| From rocky headland viewed or flow'ry whore | C |
| From sea and spreading mead alike descried | J |
| The Giant Mount tow'ring all objects o'er | C |
| And black'ning with its breath th' horizon evermore | C |
Victor Marie Hugo
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