The Enemies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDC EFGFFH IJIKILLL| Last night they came across the river and | A |
| Entered the city Women were awake | B |
| With lights and food They entertained the band | C |
| Not asking what the men had come to take | B |
| Or what strange tongue they spoke | D |
| Or why they came so suddenly through the land | C |
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| Now in the morning all the town is filled | E |
| With stories of the swift and dark invasion | F |
| The women say that not one stranger told | G |
| A reason for his coming The intrusion | F |
| Was not for devastation | F |
| Peace is apparent still on hearth and field | H |
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| Yet all the city is a haunted place | I |
| Man meeting man speaks cautiously Old friends | J |
| Close up the candid looks upon their face | I |
| There is no warmth in hands accepting hands | K |
| Each ponders 'Better hide myself in case | I |
| Those strangers have set up their homes in minds | L |
| I used to walk in Better draw the blinds | L |
| Even if the strangers haunt in my own house' | L |
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