The Grand Cortège Of Glory And Youth Is Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDECFGEFHIIJKKLLM KNMN| The grand cort ge of glory and youth is gone | A |
| flaunt standards and the flood of brazen tone | B |
| I alone linger a regretful guest | C |
| here where the hostelry has crumbled down | D |
| emptied of warmth and life and the little town | D |
| lies cold and ruin'd all its bravery done | E |
| wind blown wind blown where not even dust may rest | C |
| No cymbal clash warms the chill air the way | F |
| lies stretch'd beneath a slanting afternoon | G |
| the which no piled pyres of the slaughter'd sun | E |
| no silver sheen of eve shall follow Day | F |
| ta'en at the throat and choked in the huge slum | H |
| o' the common world shall fall across the coast | I |
| yellow and bloodless not a wound to boast | I |
| But if this bare blown waste refuse me home | J |
| and if the skies wither my vesper flight | K |
| 'twere well to creep or ever livid night | K |
| wrap the disquiet earth in horror back | L |
| where the old church stands on our morning's track | L |
| and in the iron entrellis'd choir among | M |
| rust tombs and blazons where an isle of light | K |
| is bosom'd in the friendly gloom devise | N |
| proud anthems in a long forgotten tongue | M |
| so cozening youth's despair o'er joy that dies | N |
Christopher John Brennan
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