A Forgotten Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCC D EEE B EEE D FFF G EEE H III E EEE F III| The scene of this ancient fight recorded by Froissart is still called 'Altura de los Inglesos ' Five hundred years later Wellington's soldiers were fighting on the same ground | A |
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| 'Say what saw you on the hill | B |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'I saw my brindled heifer there | C |
| A trail of bowmen spent and bare | C |
| And a little man on a sorrel mare | C |
| Riding slow before them ' | - |
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| 'Say what saw you in the vale | D |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'There I saw my lambing ewe | E |
| And an army riding through | E |
| Thick and brave the pennons flew | E |
| From the lances o'er them ' | - |
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| 'Then what saw you on the hill | B |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'I saw beside the milking byre | E |
| White with want and black with mire | E |
| The little man with eyes afire | E |
| Marshalling his bowmen ' | - |
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| 'Then what saw you in the vale | D |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'There I saw my bullocks twain | F |
| And amid my uncut grain | F |
| All the hardy men of Spain | F |
| Spurring for their foemen ' | - |
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| 'Nay but there is more to tell | G |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'I could not bide the end to view | E |
| I had graver things to do | E |
| Tending on the lambing ewe | E |
| Down among the clover ' | - |
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| 'Ah but tell me what you heard | H |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'Shouting from the mountain side | I |
| Shouting until eventide | I |
| But it dwindled and it died | I |
| Ere milking time was over ' | - |
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| 'Nay but saw you nothing more | E |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'Yes I saw them lying there | E |
| The little man and sorrel mare | E |
| And in their ranks the bowmen fair | E |
| With their staves before them ' | - |
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| 'And the hardy men of Spain | F |
| Campesino Garcia ' | - |
| 'Hush but we are Spanish too | I |
| More I may not say to you | I |
| May God's benison like dew | I |
| Gently settle o'er them ' | - |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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