Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FGGF HIIH JKKJ LMML| Roland is dead Cuchulain's crest is low | A |
| The battered war rear wastes and turns to rust | B |
| And Helen's eyes and Iseult's lips are dust | B |
| And dust the shoulders and the breasts of snow | A |
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| The faerie people from our woods are gone | C |
| No Dryads have I found in all our trees | D |
| No Triton blows his horn about our seas | D |
| And Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon | E |
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| The ancient songs they wither as the grass | F |
| And waste as doth a garment waxen old | G |
| All poets have been fools who thought to mould | G |
| A monument more durable than brass | F |
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| For these decay but not for that decays | H |
| The yearning high rebellious spirit of man | I |
| That never rested yet since life began | I |
| From striving with red Nature and her ways | H |
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| Now in the filth of war the baresark shout | J |
| Of battle it is vexed And yet so oft | K |
| Out of the deeps of old it rose aloft | K |
| That they who watch the ages may not doubt | J |
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| Though often bruised oft broken by the rod | L |
| Yet like the phoenix from each fiery bed | M |
| Higher the stricken spirit lifts its head | M |
| And higher till the beast become a god | L |
C. S. Lewis
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