Beranger's My Last Song Perhaps (january 1814) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHBEJE EKLKMENE HOOOPOQO NOROOOHOWhen to despoil my native France | A |
With flaming torch and cruel sword | B |
And boisterous drums her foeman comes | C |
I curse him and his vandal horde | B |
Yet what avail accrues to her | D |
If we assume the garb of woe | E |
Let's merry be in laughter we | F |
May rescue somewhat from the foe | E |
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Ah many a brave man trembles now | G |
I coward show no sign of fear | H |
When Bacchus sends his blessing friends | I |
I drown my panic in his cheer | H |
Come gather round my humble board | B |
And let the sparkling wassail flow | E |
Chuckling to think the while you drink | J |
This much we rescue from the foe | E |
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My creditors beset me so | E |
And so environed my abode | K |
That I agreed despite my need | L |
To settle up the debts I owed | K |
When suddenly there came the news | M |
Of this invasion as you know | E |
I'll pay no score pray lend me more | N |
I I will keep it from the foe | E |
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Now here's my mistress pretty dear | H |
Feigns terror at this martial noise | O |
And yet methinks the artful minx | O |
Would like to meet those soldier boys | O |
I tell her that they're coarse and rude | P |
Yet feel she don't believe 'em so | O |
Well never mind so she be kind | Q |
That much I rescue from the foe | O |
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If brothers hope shall have in store | N |
For us and ours no friendly glance | O |
Let's rather die than raise a cry | R |
Of welcome to the foes of France | O |
But like the swan that dying sings | O |
Let us O Frenchmen singing go | O |
Then shall our cheer when death is near | H |
Be so much rescued from the foe | O |
Eugene Field
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