Feigned Courage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGFFHHIIJJ| Horatio of ideal courage vain | A |
| Was flourishing in air his father's cane | A |
| And as the fumes of valour swelled his pate | B |
| Now thought himself this hero and now that | C |
| 'And now ' he cried 'I will Achilles be | D |
| My sword I brandish see the Trojans flee | D |
| Now I'll be Hector when his angry blade | E |
| A lane through heaps of slaughtered Grecians made | E |
| And now by deeds still braver I'll evince | F |
| I am no less than Edward the Black Prince | F |
| Give way ye coward French ' As thus he spoke | G |
| And aimed in fancy a sufficient stroke | G |
| To fix the fate of Cressy or Poictiers | F |
| The Muse relates the hero's fate with tears | F |
| He struck his milk white hand against a nail | H |
| Sees his own blood and feels his courage fail | H |
| Ah where is now that boasted valour flown | I |
| That in the tented field so late was shown | I |
| Achilles weeps Great Hector hangs the head | J |
| And the Black Prince goes whimpering to bed | J |
Charles Lamb
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