Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Ii. - Xvi - Wars Of York And Lancaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFEFD| Thus is the storm abated by the craft | A |
| Of a shrewd Counselor eager to protect | B |
| The Church whose power hath recently been checked | B |
| Whose monstrous riches threatened So the shaft | A |
| Of victory mounts high and blood is quaffed | A |
| In fields that rival Cressy and Poictiers | C |
| Pride to be washed away by bitter tears | C |
| For deep as Hell itself the avenging draught | A |
| Of civil slaughter Yet while temporal power | D |
| Is by these shocks exhausted spiritual truth | E |
| Maintains the else endangered gift of life | F |
| Proceeds from infancy to lusty youth | E |
| And under cover of this woeful strife | F |
| Gathers unblighted strength from hour to hour | D |
William Wordsworth
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