The Marching Morrows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHCH CIJI CKCK LMNO PQOQ RSCS DTDT NRURNow gird thee well for courage | A |
My knight of twenty year | B |
Against the marching morrows | C |
That fill the world with fear | B |
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The flowers fade before them | D |
The summer leaves the hill | E |
Their trumpets range the morning | F |
And those who hear grow still | E |
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Like pillagers of harvest | G |
Their fame is far abroad | H |
As gray remorseless troopers | C |
That plunder and maraud | H |
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The dust is on their corselets | C |
Their marching fills the world | I |
With conquest after conquest | J |
Their banners are unfurled | I |
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They overthrow the battles | C |
Of every lord of war | K |
From world dominioned cities | C |
Wipe out the names they bore | K |
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Sohrab Rameses Roland | L |
Ramoth Napoleon Tyre | M |
And the Romeward Huns of Attila | N |
Alas for their desire | O |
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By April and by autumn | P |
They perish in their pride | Q |
And still they close and gather | O |
Out of the mountain side | Q |
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The tanned and tameless children | R |
Of the wild elder earth | S |
With stature of the northlights | C |
They have the stars for girth | S |
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There's not a hand to stay them | D |
Of all the hearts that brave | T |
No captain to undo them | D |
No cunning to off stave | T |
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Yet fear thou not If haply | N |
Thou be the kingly one | R |
They'll set thee in their vanguard | U |
To lead them round the sun | R |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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