The Plains Of Abraham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFGE HHIJKI FFLMML NGOMMO MMPQQP MMM MMM MMAMMA RRIMMII stood upon the Plain | A |
That had trembled when the slain | A |
Hurled their proud defiant curses at the battle heated foe | B |
When the steed dashed right and left | C |
Through the bloody gaps he cleft | C |
When the bridle rein was broken and the rider was laid low | B |
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What busy feet had trod | D |
Upon the very sod | D |
Where I marshalled the battalions of my fancy to my aid | E |
And I saw the combat dire | F |
Heard the quick incessant fire | G |
And the cannons' echoes startling the reverberating glade | E |
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I saw them one and all | H |
The banners of the Gaul | H |
In the thickest of the contest round the resolute Montcalm | I |
The well attended Wolfe | J |
Emerging from the gulf | K |
Of the battle's fiery furnace like the swelling of a psalm | I |
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I heard the chorus dire | F |
That jarred along the lyre | F |
On which the hymn of battle rung like surgings of the wave | L |
When the storm at blackest night | M |
Wakes the ocean in affright | M |
As it shouts its mighty pibroch o'er some shipwrecked vessel's grave | L |
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I saw the broad claymore | N |
Flash from its scabbard o'er | G |
The ranks that quailed and shuddered at the close and fierce attack | O |
When Victory gave the word | M |
Then Scotland drew the sword | M |
And with arm that never faltered drove the brave defenders back | O |
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I saw two great chiefs die | M |
Their last breaths like the sigh | M |
Of the zephyr sprite that wantons on the rosy lips of morn | P |
No envy poisoned darts | Q |
No rancour in their hearts | Q |
To unfit them for their triumph over death's impending scorn | P |
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And as I thought and gazed | M |
My soul exultant praised | M |
The Power to whom each mighty act and victory are due | M |
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For the saint like Peace that smiled | M |
Like a heaven gifted child | M |
And for the air of quietude that steeped the distant view | M |
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The sun looked down with pride | M |
And scattered far and wide | M |
His beams of whitest glory till they flooded all the Plain | A |
The hills their veils withdrew | M |
Of white and purplish blue | M |
And reposed all green and smiling 'neath the shower of golden rain | A |
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Oh rare divinest life | R |
Of Peace compared with Strife | R |
Yours is the truest splendour and the most enduring fame | I |
All the glory ever reaped | M |
Where the fiends of battle leaped | M |
Is harsh discord to the music of your undertoned acclaim | I |
Charles Sangster
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