The Missionary. Introduction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK DDGGLMEDNN| When o'er the Atlantic wild rocked by the blast | A |
| Sad Lusitania's exiled sovereign passed | A |
| Reft of her pomp from her paternal throne | B |
| Cast forth and wandering to a clime unknown | B |
| To seek a refuge on that distant shore | C |
| That once her country's legions dyed with gore | C |
| Sudden methought high towering o'er the flood | D |
| Hesperian world thy mighty genius stood | E |
| Where spread from cape to cape from bay to bay | F |
| Serenely blue the vast Pacific lay | F |
| And the huge Cordilleras to the skies | G |
| With all their burning summits seemed to rise | G |
| Then the stern spirit spoke and to his voice | H |
| The waves and woods replied Mountains rejoice | H |
| Thou solitary sea whose billows sweep | I |
| The margin of my forests dark and deep | I |
| Rejoice the hour is come the mortal blow | J |
| That smote the golden shrines of Mexico | J |
| In Europe is avenged and thou proud Spain | K |
| Now hostile hosts insult thy own domain | K |
| Now Fate vindictive rolls with refluent flood | D |
| Back on thy shores the tide of human blood | D |
| Think of my murdered millions of the cries | G |
| That once I heard from all my kingdoms rise | G |
| Of Famine's feeble plaint of Slavery's tear | L |
| Think too if Valour Freedom Fame be dear | M |
| How my Antarctic sons undaunted stood | E |
| Exacting groan for groan and blood for blood | D |
| And shouted may the sounds be hailed by thee | N |
| Tyrants the virtuous and the brave are free | N |
William Lisle Bowles
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