Boadicea. An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJI KLKL EMEM NONO PQPQ RSTU VWVW XPYP| When the British warrior queen | A |
| Bleeding from the Roman rods | B |
| Sought with an indignant mien | A |
| Counsel of her country's gods | B |
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| Sage beneath a spreading oak | C |
| Sat the Druid hoary chief | D |
| Every burning word he spoke | C |
| Full of rage and full of grief | D |
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| Princess if our aged eyes | E |
| Weep upon thy matchless wrongs | F |
| 'Tis because resentment ties | E |
| All the terrors of our tongues | G |
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| Rome shall perish write that word | H |
| In the blood that she has spilt | I |
| Perish hopeless and abhorred | J |
| Deep in ruin as in guilt | I |
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| Rome for empire far renowned | K |
| Tramples on a thousand states | L |
| Soon her pride shall kiss the ground | K |
| Hark the Gaul is at her gates | L |
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| Other Romans shall arise | E |
| Heedless of a soldier's name | M |
| Sounds not arms shall win the prize | E |
| Harmony the path to fame | M |
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| Then the progeny that springs | N |
| From the forests of our land | O |
| Armed with thunder clad with wings | N |
| Shall a wider world command | O |
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| Regions C sar never knew | P |
| Thy posterity shall sway | Q |
| Where his eagles never flew | P |
| None invincible as they | Q |
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| Such the bard's prophetic words | R |
| Pregnant with celestial fire | S |
| Bending as he swept the chords | T |
| Of his sweet but awful lyre | U |
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| She with all a monarch's pride | V |
| Felt them in her bosom glow | W |
| Rushed to battle fought and died | V |
| Dying hurled them at the foe | W |
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| Ruffians pitiless as proud | X |
| Heaven awards the vengeance due | P |
| Empire is on us bestowed | Y |
| Shame and ruin wait for you | P |
William Cowper
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