Sonnets - On The Death Of The Duke Of Wellington. (4) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEEDFFGHGH IJJIEKKELLMNMN OPPOQRRQSSITIT UPPUVWWVPPXBXB| A | |
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| The Land stood still to listen all that day | B |
| And 'mid the hush of many a wrangling tongue | C |
| Forth from the cannon's mouth the signal rung | C |
| That from the earth a man had pass'd away | B |
| A mighty Man that over many a field | D |
| Roll'd back the tide of Battle on the foe | E |
| Thus far no further shall thy billows go | E |
| Who Freedom's falchion did right nobly wield | D |
| Like potter's vessel smiting Tyrants down | F |
| And from Earth's strongest snatching Victory's crown | F |
| Upon the anvil of each Battle plain | G |
| Still beating swords to ploughshares All is past | H |
| The glory and the labour and the pain | G |
| The Conqueror is conquer'd here at last | H |
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| Yet other men have wrought and fought and won | I |
| Cutting with crimson sword Fame's Gordian knot | J |
| And dying nations wonder'd and forgot | J |
| But this Man's name shall circle with the sun | I |
| And when our children's children feel the glow | E |
| That ripens them unconsciously to men | K |
| Asking with upturn'd face What did he then | K |
| One answer from each quicken'd heart shall flow | E |
| This Man submerg'd the Doer in the Deed | L |
| Toil'd on for Duty nor of Fame took heed | L |
| Hew'd out his name upon the great world's sides | M |
| In sure aim'd strokes of nobleness and worth | N |
| And never more Time's devastating tides | M |
| Shall wear the steadfast record from the Earth | N |
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| This Duty known and done which all men praise | O |
| Is it a thing for heroes utterly | P |
| Or claims it aught O Man from thee and me | P |
| Amid the sweat and grime of working days | O |
| Stand forth thou Conqueror before God's throne | Q |
| Thou ruler thou Earth leader great and strong | R |
| Behold thy work thy doing labour'd long | R |
| Before that mighty Presence little grown | Q |
| Stand forth thou Man low toiling 'mid the lees | S |
| That measurest Duty out in poor degrees | S |
| Are not all deeds beside the deeds of Heaven | I |
| But as the sands upon the ocean shore | T |
| Which softly breath'd on by God's winds are driven | I |
| Into dim deserts thenceforth seen no more | T |
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| Then make thou Life heroic O thou Man | U |
| Though not in Earth's eyes still in Heaven's which see | P |
| Each task accomplish'd not in poor degree | P |
| But as fain workings out of Duty's plan | U |
| The hewers and the drawers of the land | V |
| No whit behind the mighty and the great | W |
| Bearing unmoved the burden of the State | W |
| Alike each duty challenged at man's hand | V |
| Life is built up of smallest atomics | P |
| Pile upon pile the ramparts still increase | P |
| And as those Roman walls o'er which in scorn | X |
| The scoffer leapt soon held the world at bay | B |
| So shall thy deeds of duty lowly born | X |
| Be thy strong tower and glory ere the set of day | B |
Walter R. Cassels
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