Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Iii. - X - Obligations Of Civil To Religious Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBBCDBDCB| Ungrateful Country if thou e'er forget | A |
| The sons who for thy civil rights have bled | B |
| How like a Roman Sidney bowed his head | B |
| And Russel's milder blood the scaffold wet | A |
| But these had fallen for profitless regret | A |
| Had not thy holy Church her champions bred | B |
| And claims from other worlds inspirited | B |
| The star of Liberty to rise Nor yet | B |
| Grave this within thy heart if spiritual things | C |
| Be lost through apathy or scorn or fear | D |
| Shalt thou thy humbler franchises support | B |
| However hardly won or justly dear | D |
| What came from heaven to heaven by nature clings | C |
| And if dissevered thence its course is short | B |
William Wordsworth
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