Ode To Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABCBCDDBDBDEFGHIJIJ JKJKK D DDDDLLMMDDNNDDOOPPDD EEDDQQRRDDSSDDTTUU C DDVDVDWWBXBXDYDYZDZD DDDDD D A2A2DDDDJJZZIIB2B2C2 C2TTDDVVBBDDDDXXD2E2 B2B2TTDDF2F2DDZZG2G2 H2I2J2J2K2K2DDDDSTROPHE | A |
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Who shall awake the Spartan fife | A |
And call in solemn sounds to life | A |
The youths whose locks divinely spreading | B |
Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue | C |
At once the breath of Fear and Virtue shedding | B |
Applauding Freedom lov'd of old to view | C |
What new Alc us fancy blest | D |
Shall sing the sword in myrtles drest | D |
At Wisdom's shrine a while its flame concealing | B |
What place so fit to seal a deed renown'd | D |
Till she her brightest lightnings round revealing | B |
It leap'd in glory forth and dealt her prompted wound | D |
O Goddess in that feeling hour | E |
When most its sounds would court thy ears | F |
Let not my shell's misguided pow'r | G |
E'er draw thy sad thy mindful tears | H |
No Freedom no I will not tell | I |
How Rome before thy weeping face | J |
With heaviest sound a giant statue fell | I |
Push'd by a wild and artless race | J |
From off its wide ambitious base | J |
When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke | K |
And all the blended work of strength and grace | J |
With many a rude repeated stroke | K |
And many a barb'rous yell to thousand fragments broke | K |
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EPODE | D |
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Yet ev'n where'er the least appear'd | D |
Th' admiring world thy hand rever'd | D |
Still 'midst the scatter'd states around | D |
Some remnants of her strength were found | D |
They saw by what escap'd the storm | L |
How wond'rous rose her perfect form | L |
How in the great the labour'd whole | M |
Each mighty master pour'd his soul | M |
For sunny Florence seat of Art | D |
Beneath her vines preserv'd a part | D |
Till they whom Science lov'd to name | N |
O who could fear it quench'd her flame | N |
And lo an humbler relic laid | D |
In jealous Pisa's olive shade | D |
See small Marino joins the theme | O |
Tho' least not last in thy esteem | O |
Strike louder strike th' ennobling strings | P |
To those whose merchant sons were kings | P |
To him who deck'd with pearly pride | D |
In Adria weds his green hair'd bride | D |
Hail Port of Glory Wealth and Pleasure | E |
Ne'er let me change this Lydian measure | E |
Nor e'er her former pride relate | D |
To sad Liguria's bleeding state | D |
Ah no more pleas'd thy haunts I seek | Q |
On wild Helvetia's mountains bleak | Q |
Where when the favor'd of thy choice | R |
The daring archer heard thy voice | R |
Forth from his eyrie rous'd in dread | D |
The rav'ning eagle northward fled | D |
Or dwell in willow'd meads more near | S |
With those to whom thy stork is dear | S |
Those whom the rod of Alva bruis'd | D |
Whose crown a British queen refus'd | D |
The magic works thou feel'st the strains | T |
One holier name alone remains | T |
The perfect spell shall then avail | U |
Hail Nymph ador'd by Britain hail | U |
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ANTISTROPHE | C |
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Beyond the measure vast of thought | D |
The works the wizard Time has wrought | D |
The Gaul 'tis held of antique story | V |
Saw Britain link'd to his now adverse strand | D |
No sea between nor cliff sublime and hoary | V |
He pass'd with unwet feet thro' all our land | D |
To the blown Baltic then they say | W |
The wild waves found another way | W |
Where Orcas howls his wolfish mountains rounding | B |
Till all the banded West at once 'gan rise | X |
A wide wild storm ev'n Nature's self confounding | B |
With'ring her giant sons with strange uncouth surprise | X |
This pillar'd Earth so firm and wide | D |
By winds and inward labours torn | Y |
In thunders dread was push'd aside | D |
And down the should'ring billows borne | Y |
And see like gems her laughing train | Z |
The little isles on ev'ry side | D |
Mona once hid from those who search the main | Z |
Where thousand elfin shapes abide | D |
And Wight who checks the west'ring tide | D |
For thee consenting Heav'n has each bestow'd | D |
A fair attendant on her sov'reign pride | D |
To thee this blest divorce she ow'd | D |
For thou hast made her vales thy lov'd thy last abode | D |
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SECOND EPODE | D |
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Then too 'tis said an hoary pile | A2 |
'Midst the green navel of our Isle | A2 |
Thy shrine in some religious wood | D |
O soul enforcing Goddess stood | D |
There oft the painted native's feet | D |
Were wont thy form celestial meet | D |
Tho' now with hopeless toil we trace | J |
Time's backward rolls to find its place | J |
Whether the fiery tressed Dane | Z |
Or Roman's self o'erturn'd the fane | Z |
Or in what Heav'n left age it fell | I |
'Twere hard for modern song to tell | I |
Yet still if truth those beams infuse | B2 |
Which guide at once and charm the Muse | B2 |
Beyond yon braided clouds that lie | C2 |
Paving the light embroider'd sky | C2 |
Amidst the bright pavilion'd plains | T |
The beauteous model still remains | T |
There happier than in islands blest | D |
Or bow'rs by Spring or Hebe drest | D |
The chiefs who fill our Albion's story | V |
In warlike weeds retir'd in glory | V |
Hear their consorted Druids sing | B |
Their triumphs to th' immortal string | B |
How may the poet now unfold | D |
What never tongue or numbers told | D |
How learn delighted and amaz'd | D |
What hands unknown that fabric rais'd | D |
Ev'n now before his favour'd eyes | X |
In Gothic pride it seems to rise | X |
Yet Gr cia's graceful orders join | D2 |
Majestic thro' the mix'd design | E2 |
The secret builder knew to choose | B2 |
Each sphere found gem of richest hues | B2 |
Whate'er Heav'n's purer mould contains | T |
When nearer suns emblaze its veins | T |
There on the walls the patriot's sight | D |
May ever hang with fresh delight | D |
And grav'd with some prophetic rage | F2 |
Read Albion's fame thro' ev'ry age | F2 |
Ye forms divine ye laureate band | D |
That near her inmost altar stand | D |
Now soothe her to her blissful train | Z |
Blithe Concord's social form to gain | Z |
Concord whose myrtle wand can steep | G2 |
Ev'n Anger's blood shot eyes in sleep | G2 |
Before whose breathing bosom's balm | H2 |
Rage drops his steel and storms grow clam | I2 |
Her let our sires and matrons hoar | J2 |
Welcome to Britain's ravag'd shore | J2 |
Our youths enamour'd of the fair | K2 |
Play with the tangles of her hair | K2 |
Till in one loud applauding sound | D |
The Nations shout to her around | D |
O how supremely art thou blest | D |
Thou Lady thou shalt rule the West | D |
William Collins
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