A Unit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOPQRS TUVWCLLLLXLXPLCTYLZL A2X| When I was camping on the Volga's banks | A |
| The trader Zanthon with a leash of mares | B |
| Went by my tent I knew the wily Jew | C |
| And he knew me He muttered as he passed | D |
| The last Bathony and his tusks are grown | E |
| A broken 'scutcheon is a 'scutcheon still | F |
| And Amine's token in my caftan lies | G |
| Amine who weeps and wails for his return | H |
| He caught my eye and slipped inside the tent | I |
| Haw Zanthon up from Poland at your tricks | J |
| How veer the boars on old Bathony's towers | K |
| True to the winds that blow on Poland's plains | L |
| They bite the dust my lord as beast to beast | M |
| When Poles conspire conspiracy alone | E |
| Survives to hover in the murky air | N |
| My lord Bathony's gates are left ajar | O |
| For you to enter or remain outside | P |
| The forest holds the secret you surprised | Q |
| And men are there to dare as they have dared | R |
| Haw Zanthon tell me of the palatine | S |
| The air of Russia makes a man forget | T |
| He was a man elsewhere the trumpets' squeal | U |
| I follow and the thud of drums You spoke | V |
| As if I were of princely birth hark ye | W |
| Battalion is the call I listen to | C |
| My lord the cranes that plunder in your fens | L |
| The doves that nest within your woods I saw | L |
| Fly round the gaping walls and plume their wings | L |
| Upon your father's grave Do you know this | L |
| A token Zanthon so a withered flower | X |
| You think I wore one in my sword hilt once | L |
| Methinks there is no perfume in this flower | X |
| Watch while I fling it on the Volga's tide | P |
| The chief my father sent me with a curse | L |
| To travel in the steppes and so I do | C |
| The air of Russia makes a man forget | T |
| He was a man elsewhere for love or hope | Y |
| And as he marches he becomes but this | L |
| Haw Zanthon would you learn the reason why | Z |
| Search on the Caucasus the northern seas | L |
| Look in the sky or over earth then ask | A2 |
| The answer everywhere will be The Tzar | X |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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