Malbrouck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CDCE DDDF DDDF GHHI DDDI JJJK LLLM H HN DOON OOOP QOOP R| Malbrouck the prince of commanders | A |
| Is gone to the war in Flanders | A |
| His fame is like Alexander's | A |
| But when will he come home | B |
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| Perhaps at Trinity Feast or | C |
| Perhaps he may come at Easter | D |
| Egad he had better make haste or | C |
| We fear he may never come | E |
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| For Trinity Feast is over | D |
| And has brought no news from Dover | D |
| And Easter is past moreover | D |
| And Malbrouck still delays | F |
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| Milady in her watch tower | D |
| Spends many a pensive hour | D |
| Not well knowing why or how her | D |
| Dear lord from England stays | F |
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| While sitting quite forlorn in | G |
| That tower she spies returning | H |
| A page clad in deep mourning | H |
| With fainting steps and slow | I |
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| O page prithee come faster | D |
| What news do you bring of your master | D |
| I fear there is some disaster | D |
| Your looks are so full of woe | I |
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| The news I bring fair lady | J |
| With sorrowful accent said he | J |
| Is one you are not ready | J |
| So soon alas to hear | K |
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| But since to speak I'm hurried | L |
| Added this page quite flurried | L |
| Malbrouck is dead and buried | L |
| And here he shed a tear | M |
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| He's dead he's dead as a herring | H |
| For I beheld his 'berring ' | - |
| And four officers transferring | H |
| His corpse away from the field | N |
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| One officer carried his sabre | D |
| And he carried it not without labour | O |
| Much envying his next neighbour | O |
| Who only bore a shield | N |
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| The third was helmet bearer | O |
| That helmet which on its wearer | O |
| Filled all who saw with terror | O |
| And covered a hero's brains | P |
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| Now having got so far I | Q |
| Find that by the Lord Harry | O |
| The fourth is left nothing to carry | O |
| So there the thing remains | P |
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| Translated by Father Prout | R |
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