Wolfe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCDC EFEFCC| I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec to morrow Wolfe on hearing Gray's Elegy read the night before the capture of Quebec | A |
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| Thou need'st no marble monuments to keep | B |
| Thy fame immortal and thy memory | C |
| An inspiration to make pulses leap | B |
| And resolution spring to mastery | C |
| Thou need'st no gilded tablets on the walls | D |
| Of cities no imposing sepulchre | C |
| Imperishable Wolfe whose name recalls | D |
| The flower of kings who bore Excalibur | C |
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| The ultimate dispensers of renown | E |
| The poets shall accord thee honor fit | F |
| And add fresh laurels ever to thy crown | E |
| High minded hero who hadst rather writ | F |
| Those lines of one to every poet dear | C |
| Than take the fortress of a hemisphere | C |
W. M. Mackeracher
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