Dauntless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEH IJIJ IKIE LMLM IKIK EEEE ENEO EEEE PEPE QRSR TKUK KVKV WKWK XYXY EEEE JZJZ A2B2A2B2 KEKE EC2EC2

So he is dead A strange sad story clingsA
About the memory of this mindless manB
A tale that strips war's tinsel off and bringsA
Its horrors out as only history canB
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Within a peaceful town he dwelt in youthC
His sister's hero and his mother's prideD
The soul of honor the abode of truthC
Beloved and reverenced on every sideD
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He had a sweetheart lovely as the dayE
A gentle maid who knew not half his worthF
Who loved the sunshine and who shrank awayE
From sorrow and forever followed mirthF
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They were but young and hope's mirage uprearedE
In their warm hearts its rosy palacesG
They deemed them real and longing only fearedE
Life was too short for all the promised blissH
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And then came war blood spattered cruel as hellI
And clamored with its iron voice for lifeJ
Mother and sister and the wedding bellI
The hero left and hastened to the strifeJ
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In vain he struck for liberty and fellI
A captive in his earliest affrayK
Then threatening death fierce Haynau bade him tellI
Where and how strong the patriot forces layE
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I will not tell he cried with eyes aflameL
Do what thou wilt with me I will not bringM
Doom to my land and soil my honored nameL
From these sealed lips thou shalt no secret wringM
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His captor only laughed He croweth wellI
Go bring his mother and his sister hereK
And they shall die if he refuse to tellI
The hero answered not but paled with fearK
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The brutal soldiers to the brutish courtE
Dragged the weak women and they stood o'er awedE
Each to the other clinging for supportE
And praying in her misery to GodE
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The fell decree the shrinking creatures heardE
And long in vain essayed to make replyN
For their weak speech could find no fitting wordE
To bear the burden of their agonyO
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Tears came at last The brutal Haynau smiledE
But all too soon Weeping the mother saidE
Be not thy country's traitor oh my childE
Too old am I the loss of life to dreadE
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Then spake the sister Brother mine be braveP
Life hath no charms if with dishonor boughtE
Think not of us our bleeding country saveP
Life is so short at best death matters naughtE
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The hero made no answer but he droveQ
His nails into his palms and choked for breathR
His captor bade the soldiery removeS
The noble women and they went to deathR
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He hath a sweetheart Haynau said againT
Go bring her hither and they brought her thereK
Weeping with fear and wailing low with painU
Amid the golden ringlets of her hairK
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Then from the earth she sprang frenzied with fearK
Into her lover's arms and kissed his cheekV
And strok'd his hair and called him love and dearK
And prayed him for her sake to yield and speakV
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He thrust her from him clasped her yielding formW
In his lithe arms again and then once moreK
Repulsed her gently and the deadly stormW
That raged within him smote him to the floorK
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Groping he rose and spoke None knew his voiceX
It sounded as though coming from a tombY
Oh darling it must be I have no choiceX
Thou would'st not have me seal my country's doomY
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Haynau made sign Away with her he criedE
They seized their prey but life to her was sweetE
And bounding from the soldiers at her sideE
Screaming she crouched and clasped her lover's feetE
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Oh for the love you bear me save my lifeJ
Tell what he asks and we will fly this placeZ
Into some unknown land where all this strifeJ
Shall be forgotten in love's sweet embraceZ
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He made no answer save by bending lowA2
And kissing her damp brow They raised their prizeB2
And bore her to the door as pale as snowA2
With all her soul outwelling from her eyesB2
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But here she turned calm in her death despairK
And in a voice that trembled with its hateE
My dying curse be on you everywhereK
False love she cried who send me to my fateE
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There was a silence then a fusiladeE
Of musketry a woman's scream and moanC2
Then silence That was all and in the shadeE
Of night the hero laughed Reason had flownC2

Arthur Weir



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