Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands;
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands;
For man is man and master of his fate.
Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd;
Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | aaB ccb ddb aaB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 111 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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