Peace In A Palace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEAE FGHG CIAI CJAJ FGK A L C AM FGKG ANONPIQIR FGK| 'You were weeping in the night ' said the Emperor | A |
| 'Weeping in your sleep I am told ' | B |
| 'It was nothing but a dream ' said the Empress | C |
| But her face grew gray and old | D |
| 'You thought you saw our German God defeated ' | B |
| 'Oh no ' she said 'I saw no lightnings fall | E |
| I dreamed of a whirlpool of green water | A |
| Where something had gone down That was all | E |
| - | |
| 'All but the whimper of the sea gulls flying | F |
| Endlessly round and round | G |
| Waiting for the faces the faces from the darkness | H |
| The dreadful rising faces of the drowned | G |
| - | |
| 'It was nothing but a dream ' said the Empress | C |
| 'I thought I was walking on the sea | I |
| And the foam rushed up in a wild smother | A |
| And a crowd of little faces looked at me | I |
| - | |
| They were drowning They were drowning ' said the Empress | C |
| 'And they stretched their feeble arms to the sky | J |
| But the worst was they mistook me for their mother | A |
| And cried as my children used to cry | J |
| - | |
| 'Nothing but a whimper of the sea gulls flying | F |
| Endlessly round and round | G |
| With the cruel yellow beaks that were waiting for the faces | K |
| The little floating faces of the drowned ' | - |
| - | |
| 'It was nothing but a dream ' said the Emperor | A |
| 'So why should you weep dear eh ' | - |
| 'Oh I saw the red letters on a life belt | L |
| That the green sea washed my way ' | - |
| 'What were they ' said the Emperor 'What were they ' | - |
| 'Some of them were hidden ' said the Empress | C |
| 'But I plainly saw the L and the U ' | - |
| 'In God's name stop ' said the Emperor | A |
| 'You told me that it was not true | M |
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| 'Told me that you dreamed of the sea gulls flying | F |
| Endlessly round and round | G |
| Waiting for the faces and the eyes in the faces | K |
| The eyes of the children that we drowned | G |
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| 'Kiss me and forget it ' said the Emperor | A |
| 'Dry your tears on the tassel of my sword | N |
| I am going to offer peace to my people | O |
| And abdicate perhaps as overlord | N |
| I shall now take up My Cross as Count of Prussia | P |
| Which is not a heavy burden you'll agree | I |
| Why before the twenty million dead are rotten | Q |
| There'll be yachting days again for you and me | I |
| Cheer up | R |
| It would mean a rope for anyone but Me ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Oh take care ' said the Empress 'They are flying | F |
| Endlessly round and round | G |
| They have finished with the faces the dreadful little faces | K |
| The little eyeless faces of the drowned ' | - |
Alfred Noyes
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