The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDDEFEFGG HHIIJJKLLBKBB MNMNNNNNNNOPQ| A | |
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| HUMANITY delighting to behold | B |
| A fond reflection of her own decay | C |
| Hath painted Winter like a traveller old | B |
| Propped on a staff and through the sullen day | C |
| In hooded mantle limping o'er the plain | D |
| As though his weakness were disturbed by pain | D |
| Or if a juster fancy should allow | E |
| An undisputed symbol of command | F |
| The chosen sceptre is a withered bough | E |
| Infirmly grasped within a palsied hand | F |
| These emblems suit the helpless and forlorn | G |
| But mighty Winter the device shall scorn | G |
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| For he it was dread Winter who beset | H |
| Flinging round van and rear his ghastly net | H |
| That host when from the regions of the Pole | I |
| They shrunk insane ambition's barren goal | I |
| That host as huge and strong as e'er defied | J |
| Their God and placed their trust in human pride | J |
| As fathers persecute rebellious sons | K |
| He smote the blossoms of their warrior youth | L |
| He called on Frost's inexorable tooth | L |
| Life to consume in Manhood's firmest hold | B |
| Nor spared the reverend blood that feebly runs | K |
| For why unless for liberty enrolled | B |
| And sacred home ah why should hoary Age be bold | B |
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| Fleet the Tartar's reinless steed | M |
| But fleeter far the pinions of the Wind | N |
| Which from Siberian caves the Monarch freed | M |
| And sent him forth with squadrons of his kind | N |
| And bade the Snow their ample backs bestride | N |
| And to the battle ride | N |
| No pitying voice commands a halt | N |
| No courage can repel the dire assault | N |
| Distracted spiritless benumbed and blind | N |
| Whole legions sink and in one instant find | N |
| Burial and death look for them and descry | O |
| When morn returns beneath the clear blue sky | P |
| A soundless waste a trackless vacancy | Q |
William Wordsworth
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