William Tell. - A Sonnet. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEAA| Chains may subdue the feeble spirit but thee | A |
| Tell of the iron heart they could not tame | B |
| For thou wert of the mountains they proclaim | B |
| The everlasting creed of liberty | A |
| That creed is written on the untrampled snow | C |
| Thundered by torrents which no power can hold | D |
| Save that of God when he sends forth his cold | D |
| And breathed by winds that through the free heaven blow | C |
| Thou while thy prison walls were dark around | E |
| Didst meditate the lesson Nature taught | F |
| And to thy brief captivity was brought | F |
| A vision of thy Switzerland unbound | E |
| The bitter cup they mingled strengthened thee | A |
| For the great work to set thy country free | A |
William Cullen Bryant
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