Swiss Song, On The Anniversary Of An Ancient Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG AHAHII JFJGBB KLKLMM AHAHBB HNHNHH ACACOO| Look on the white Alps round | A |
| If yet they gird a land | B |
| Where freedom's voice and step are found | A |
| Forget ye not the band | B |
| The faithful band our sires who fell | C |
| Here in the narrow battle dell | C |
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| If yet the wilds among | D |
| Our silent hearts may burn | E |
| When the deep mountain horn hath rung | D |
| And home our steps may turn | E |
| Home home if still that name be dear | F |
| Praise to the men who perish'd here | G |
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| Look on the white Alps round | A |
| Up to their shining snows | H |
| That day the stormy rolling sound | A |
| The sound of battle rose | H |
| Their caves prolong'd the trumpet's blast | I |
| Their dark pines trembled as it pass'd | I |
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| They saw the princely crest | J |
| They saw the knightly spear | F |
| The banner and the mail clad breast | J |
| Borne down and trampled here | G |
| They saw and glorying there they stand | B |
| Eternal records to the land | B |
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| Praise to the mountain born | K |
| The brethren of the glen | L |
| By them no steel array was worn | K |
| They stood as peasant men | L |
| They left the vineyard and the field | M |
| To break an empire's lance and shield | M |
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| Look on the white Alps round | A |
| If yet along their steeps | H |
| Our children's fearless feet may bound | A |
| Free as the chamois leaps | H |
| Teach them in song to bless the band | B |
| Amidst whose mossy graves we stand | B |
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| If by the wood fire's blaze | H |
| When winter stars gleam cold | N |
| The glorious tales of elder days | H |
| May proudly yet be told | N |
| Forget not then the shepherd race | H |
| Who made the hearth a holy place | H |
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| Look on the white Alps round | A |
| If yet the sabbath bell | C |
| Comes o'er them with a gladdening sound | A |
| Think on the battle dell | C |
| For blood first bath'd its flowery sod | O |
| That chainless hearts might worship God | O |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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