A Scot To Jeanne D'arc Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGFHH IIEJKEAA LLEMMENN OOEIIECCDark Lily without blame | A |
Not upon us the shame | A |
Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true | B |
They by the Maiden's side | C |
Victorious fought and died | C |
One stood by thee that fiery torment through | B |
Till the White Dove from thy pure lips had passed | D |
And thou wert with thine own St Catherine at the last | D |
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Once only didst thou see | E |
In artist's imagery | E |
Thine own face painted and that precious thing | F |
Was in an Archer's hand | G |
From the leal Northern land | G |
Alas what price would not thy people bring | F |
To win that portrait of the ruinous | H |
Gulf of devouring years that hide the Maid from us | H |
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Born of a lowly line | I |
Noteless as once was thine | I |
One of that name I would were kin to me | E |
Who in the Scottish Guard | J |
Won this for his reward | K |
To fight for France and memory of thee | E |
Not upon us dark Lily without blame | A |
Not on the North may fall the shadow of that shame | A |
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On France and England both | L |
The shame of broken troth | L |
Of coward hate and treason black must be | E |
If England slew thee France | M |
Sent not one word one lance | M |
One coin to rescue or to ransom thee | E |
And still thy Church unto the Maid denies | N |
The halo and the palms the Beatific prize | N |
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But yet thy people calls | O |
Within the rescued walls | O |
Of Orleans and makes its prayer to thee | E |
What though the Church have chidden | I |
These orisons forbidden | I |
Yet art thou with this earth's immortal Three | E |
With him in Athens that of hemlock died | C |
And with thy Master dear whom the world crucified | C |
Andrew Lang
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