The Roll Of The De Silve Race Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJK KLLMKKNNHHO BK PQ BRRS| HERNANI Act III | A |
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| In that reverend face | B |
| Behold the father of De Silva's race | B |
| Silvius in Rome he filled the consul's place | B |
| Three times your patience for such honored names | C |
| This second was Grand Master of St James | C |
| And Calatrava his strong limbs sustained | D |
| Armor which ours would sink beneath He gained | D |
| Thirty pitched battles and took as legends tell | E |
| Three hundred standards from the Infidel | E |
| And from the Moorish King Motril in war | F |
| Won Antiquera Suez and Nijar | F |
| And then died poor Next to him Juan stands | G |
| His son his plighted hand was worth the hands | G |
| Of kings Next Gaspar of Mendoza's line | H |
| Few noble stems but chose to join with mine | H |
| Sandoval sometimes fears and sometimes woos | I |
| Our smiles Manriquez envies Lara sues | I |
| And Alancastre hates Our rank we know | J |
| Kings are but just above us dukes below | J |
| Vasquez who kept for sixty years his vow | K |
| Greater than he I pass This reverend brow | K |
| This was my sire's the greatest though the last | L |
| The Moors his friend had taken and made fast | L |
| Alvar Giron What did my father then | M |
| He cut in stone an image of Alvar | K |
| Cunningly carved and dragged it to the war | K |
| He vowed a vow to yield no inch of ground | N |
| Until that image of itself turned round | N |
| He reached Alvar he saved him and his line | H |
| Was old De Silva's and his name was mine | H |
| Ruy Gomez | O |
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| King CARLOS Drag me from his lurking place | B |
| The traitor | K |
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| DON RUY leads the KING to the portrait behind | P |
| which HERNANI is hiding | Q |
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| Sire your highness does me grace | B |
| This the last portrait bears my form and name | R |
| And you would write this motto on the frame | R |
| 'This last sprung from the noblest and the best | S |
| Betrayed his plighted troth and sold his guest ' | - |
Victor Marie Hugo
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