Battle Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDBEFEGHGHBIBI JKJLIBIBIBIBJMJM| Day like our souls is fiercely dark | A |
| What then 'Tis day | B |
| We sleep no more the cock crows hark | A |
| To arms away | B |
| They come they come the knell is rung | C |
| Of us or them | D |
| Wide o'er their march the pomp is flung | C |
| Of gold and gem | D |
| What collar'd hound of lawless sway | B |
| To famine dear | E |
| What pension'd slave of Attila | F |
| Leads in the rear | E |
| Come they from Scythian wilds afar | G |
| Our blood to spill | H |
| Wear they the livery of the Czar | G |
| They do his will | H |
| Nor tassell'd silk nor epaulet | B |
| Nor plume nor torse | I |
| No splendour gilds all sternly met | B |
| Our foot and horse | I |
| But dark and still we inly glow | J |
| Condensed in ire | K |
| Strike tawdry slaves and ye shall know | J |
| Our gloom is fire | L |
| In vain your pomp ye evil powers | I |
| Insults the land | B |
| Wrongs vengeance and the Cause are ours | I |
| And God's right hand | B |
| Madmen they trample into snakes | I |
| The wormy clod | B |
| Like fire beneath their feet awakes | I |
| The sword of God | B |
| Behind before above below | J |
| They rouse the brave | M |
| Where'er they go they make a foe | J |
| Or find a grave | M |
Ebenezer Elliott
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