Bar Kochba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDCDBDBEB| Weep Israel your tardy meed outpour | A |
| Of grateful homage on his fallen head | B |
| That never coronal of triumph wore | A |
| Untombed dishonored and unchapleted | B |
| If Victory makes the hero raw Success | C |
| The stamp of virtue unremembered | B |
| Be then the desperate strife the storm and stress | C |
| Of the last Warrior Jew But if the man | D |
| Who dies for freedom loving all things less | C |
| Against world legions mustering his poor clan | D |
| The weak the wronged the miserable to send | B |
| Their death cry's protest through the ages' span | D |
| If such an one be worthy ye shall lend | B |
| Eternal thanks to him eternal praise | E |
| Nobler the conquered than the conqueror's end | B |
Emma Lazarus
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