Windsor Poetics : Lines Composed On The Occasion Of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent Being Seen Standing Between The Coffins Of Henry VIII And Charles I, In The Royal Vault At Windsor
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Famed for contemptuous breach of sacred ties,
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies;
Between them stands another sceptred thing--
It moves, it reigns--in all but name, a king:
Charles to his people, Henry to his wife,
- In him the double tyrant starts to life:
Justice and death have mix'd their dust in vain,
Each royal vampire wakes to life again.
Ah, what can tombs avail!--since these disgorge
The blood and dust of both--to mould a George.
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABB CCXXDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6 |
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