Brock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDB EFFFFE GHHHHG IJJJJI FKKLKF MNNNNM| OCTOBER TH | A |
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| One voice one people one in heart | B |
| And soul and feeling and desire | C |
| Re light the smouldering martial fire | C |
| Sound the mute trumpet strike the lyre | D |
| The hero deed can not expire | D |
| The dead still play their part | B |
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| Raise high the monumental stone | E |
| A nation's fealty is theirs | F |
| And we are the rejoicing heirs | F |
| The honored sons of sires whose cares | F |
| We take upon us unawares | F |
| As freely as our own | E |
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| We boast not of the victory | G |
| But render homage deep and just | H |
| To his to their immortal dust | H |
| Who proved so worthy of their trust | H |
| No lofty pile nor sculptured bust | H |
| Can herald their degree | G |
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| No tongue need blazon forth their fame | I |
| The cheers that stir the sacred hill | J |
| Are but mere promptings of the will | J |
| That conquered then that conquers still | J |
| And generations yet shall thrill | J |
| At Brock's remembered name | I |
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| Some souls are the Hesperides | F |
| Heaven sends to guard the golden age | K |
| Illuming the historic page | K |
| With records of their pilgrimage | L |
| True Martyr Hero Poet Sage | K |
| And he was one of these | F |
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| Each in his lofty sphere sublime | M |
| Sits crowned above the common throng | N |
| Wrestling with some Pythonic wrong | N |
| In prayer in thunder thought or song | N |
| Briarcus limbed they sweep along | N |
| The Typhons of the time | M |
Charles Sangster
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