Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - Vi - Persecution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEFG| Lament for Diocletian's fiery sword | A |
| Works busy as the lightning but instinct | B |
| With malice ne'er to deadliest weapon linked | B |
| Which God's ethereal store houses afford | A |
| Against the Followers of the incarnate Lord | A |
| It rages some are smitten in the field | C |
| Some pierced to the heart through the ineffectual shield | C |
| Of sacred home with pomp are others gored | A |
| And dreadful respite Thus was Alban tried | D |
| England's first Martyr whom no threats could shake | E |
| Self offered victim for his friend he died | D |
| And for the faith nor shall his name forsake | E |
| That Hill whose flowery platform seems to rise | F |
| By Nature decked for holiest sacrifice | G |
William Wordsworth
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