Coronation Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAABDCDDB EFFGEFHGIHIJG KLLMLKNOMMMO PIQRQISSTURUT VWVXVYY ZBWZBA2B B2EEMKB2EMEB2B2EE C2ZZC2C2ZC2D2EE2ZF2E 2O Thou enfolded in grief | A |
Man with thy mantle of scorn | B |
Arise and warn | B |
Unloved prophet of ill | C |
Who sittest clothed in thy grief | A |
In thy pride of unbelief | A |
In thy silence of love forsworn | B |
Speak thy word to the world | D |
Let it be as a sword to thy will | C |
Let it be as a spear that is hurled | D |
A banner of wrath unfurled | D |
A garment rent and torn | B |
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Speak They shall listen to thee | E |
A single voice at their feast | F |
To the last and least | F |
They shall hear what they loathe to hear | G |
In the day of their Jubilee | E |
Of their coronation feast | F |
With the wine at their insolent lips | H |
Though they lend no ear | G |
And their shoutings ring | I |
From the decks of a thousand ships | H |
Acclaiming their new crowned king | I |
With a coronation cheer | J |
They shall hear | G |
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Speak in their jubilant hour | K |
In the midst of their might and mirth | L |
Be thy theme the Earth | L |
The ancient tale of the lands of fame | M |
Empires of earlier birth | L |
Which held the world in their lust of power | K |
As their own for dower | N |
And abused their trust | O |
Make thy theme of the wrath that came | M |
The smoke that rose the devouring flame | M |
The day of glory the night of shame | M |
And the end of dust | O |
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O thou enrobed in thy tears | P |
Thou hast heard the children sing | I |
The children that pass in the street | Q |
The innocent ones with their chauntings proud | R |
The rhyme of their marching feet | Q |
How their voices sting | I |
What is the word they say | S |
In their play | S |
The hymn their young lips fashion | T |
They have marched through the crowded ways | U |
With flags and glory and shoutings loud | R |
While the sun has looked down ablaze | U |
Amazed at their joyous passion | T |
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Each one carries a sword | V |
A wooden sword in his hand | W |
With ribbon and belt and cord | V |
And a gun on his shoulder glorious | X |
Proud each one as a lord | V |
Soldiers '' they shout We are soldiers come | Y |
From a battle field For hark the drum | Y |
From a field of fight victorious '' | - |
Soldiers Soldiers Soldiers '' Weary am I | Z |
Of that word forlorn | B |
Of the king's command | W |
Of the children's insolent cry | Z |
A nation's cry whom the nations scorn | B |
For its childish pride | A2 |
Better were these unborn | B |
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England Where is she Where | B2 |
Land of the fortunate free | E |
Which hath ceased to be | E |
What hath she done with her fame | M |
The nations that envied her | K |
Turned to her in their care | B2 |
Sought her light upon land and sea | E |
Called as once on her ancient name | M |
The name of her liberty | E |
But her ears were shut to their prayer | B2 |
Her place was a sepulchre | B2 |
She had ceased in her strength to be | E |
She was no more free | E |
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She fell as a star from its place | C2 |
As a bird from its path in the sky | Z |
As a spring run dry | Z |
A fruit in its rottenness | C2 |
As a drunken woman prone on her face | C2 |
While the world went by | Z |
And she knew not her own disgrace | C2 |
O thou who hast seen her fall | D2 |
Who hast witnessed her agony | E |
Who hast looked on the face of the dead | E2 |
Lift up thy voice in the night and cry | Z |
The harvest is harvested | F2 |
As these shall have made their bed | E2 |
So let them lie '' | - |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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