Robert The Bruce (to Douglas In Dying) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIJKLMLNOLO PQRQSTUVWXYZ| 'MY life is done yet all remains | A |
| The breath has gone the image not | B |
| The furious shapes once forged in heat | C |
| Live on though now no longer hot | B |
| 'Steadily the shining swords | D |
| In order rise in order fall | E |
| In order on the beaten field | F |
| The faithful trumpets call | E |
| 'The women weeping for the dead | G |
| Are not sad now but dutiful | H |
| The dead men stiffening in their place | I |
| Proclaim the ancient rule | J |
| 'Great Wallace's body hewn in four | K |
| So altered stays as it must be | L |
| Douglas do not leave me now | M |
| For past your head I see | L |
| 'My dagger sheathed in Comyn's heart | N |
| And nothing there to praise or blame | O |
| Nothing but order which must be | L |
| Itself and still the same | O |
| 'But that Christ hung upon the Cross | P |
| Comyn would rot until time's end | Q |
| And bury my sin in boundless dust | R |
| For there is no amend | Q |
| 'In order yet in order run | S |
| All things by unreturning ways | T |
| If Christ live not nothing is there | U |
| For sorrow or for praise ' | V |
| So the king spoke to Douglas once | W |
| A little while before his death | X |
| Having outfaced three English kings | Y |
| And kept a people's faith | Z |
Edwin Muir
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