Marshal Ney's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCC DEDEDEFF GHGHGHDD IJIKIJLL MNMNMNOO PQPQPQRR STSTSTUV| Adieu to France Land of the Brave farewell | A |
| Sleep sweetly there thy sons will watch by thee | B |
| High as thy hills their burning blood will swell | A |
| To leave thee as they find thee fair and free | B |
| The nations gaze and tremble at thy spell | A |
| A vision of eternal Liberty | B |
| Emerging from a swift and bloody birth | C |
| The terror wonder glory of the earth | C |
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| Yet France farewell One son may find his grave | D |
| Beneath thy soil and leave thee marching still | E |
| Napoleon with his millions of the brave | D |
| Along the paths of glory at thy will | E |
| Soldiers farewell And when your banners wave | D |
| Above my bones beside some nameless hill | E |
| Stop not the thunder of your glorious tread | F |
| To mark me sleeping with th' inglorious dead | F |
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| And farewell Foes Brave hearts and grand of soul | G |
| We fought in fierceness now in peace we part | H |
| My luckless heart hath ever been the goal | G |
| Sought by your sabres but in vain O Heart | H |
| Welcome to death amid the drum's far roll | G |
| Great souls where I no more will dare your dart | H |
| 'Tis best to die where war's bluff banners wave | D |
| Swathed in your guerdon Bravest of the brave | D |
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| Farewell the storm voiced Steed the hero Horse | I |
| That snuffs the battle's sulphury breath afar | J |
| The proudest form the best compacted force | I |
| That hurls the earthquake on the field of war | K |
| No more I'll ride on his terrific course | I |
| That meteor maddened through the lines ajar | J |
| While the foe blanching at the onset reels | L |
| Before his breath and thunder of his heels | L |
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| Farewell volcanic din Olympian brattle | M |
| The bursting bomb the thousand throated cheer | N |
| Tartarean roar the volleyed rifle rattle | M |
| The rocket's lightning line of fire and fear | N |
| I sought my fate 'mid foes in brilliant battle | M |
| Gorging with souls the hungry atmosphere | N |
| I find my fate from one cold coward's command | O |
| A dozen bullets and a friendly hand | O |
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| Thus I once Michael Ney Marshal of France | P |
| And soon a heap of dust dishonored sink | Q |
| I who have vanned the Empire's fierce advance | P |
| In triple continents of fame to drink | Q |
| And bore its backward but still levelled lance | P |
| From Borodino to the icy brink | Q |
| Of Beresina thence defiance hurled | R |
| To the linked thunders of th' embattled world | R |
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| No bandage bring Stark eyed the hero dies | S |
| Do you not know that thus for twenty years | T |
| I've faced both ball and bullet for no prize | S |
| But weal of France my country In man's ears | T |
| Yea and before God's all beholding eyes | S |
| I swear I never wronged her But Death nears | T |
| Marshal no more behold a man expire | U |
| So now make ready Aim Dear comrades fire | V |
A. H. Laidlaw
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