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