Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - Xxxii - Coldly We Spake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDBEFGFGE| Coldly we spake The Saxons overpowered | A |
| By wrong triumphant through its own excess | B |
| From fields laid waste from house and home devoured | A |
| By flames look up to heaven and crave redress | B |
| From God's eternal justice Pitiless | C |
| Though men be there are angels that can feel | D |
| For wounds that death alone has power to heal | D |
| For penitent guilt and innocent distress | B |
| And has a Champion risen in arms to try | E |
| His Country's virtue fought and breathes no more | F |
| Him in their hearts the people canonize | G |
| And far above the mine's most precious ore | F |
| The least small pittance of bare mould they prize | G |
| Scooped from the sacred earth where his dear relics lie | E |
William Wordsworth
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