Beranger's My Last Song Perhaps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFAF GHIHCFJF FKLKMFNF HOOOPOQO NOROOOHO| JANUARY | A |
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| When to despoil my native France | B |
| With flaming torch and cruel sword | C |
| And boisterous drums her foeman comes | D |
| I curse him and his vandal horde | C |
| Yet what avail accrues to her | E |
| If we assume the garb of woe | F |
| Let's merry be in laughter we | A |
| May rescue somewhat from the foe | F |
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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 | C |
| And let the sparkling wassail flow | F |
| Chuckling to think the while you drink | J |
| This much we rescue from the foe | F |
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| My creditors beset me so | F |
| 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 | F |
| I'll pay no score pray lend me more | N |
| I I will keep it from the foe | F |
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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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