The Death-day Of Korner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGFG ABAB HIHI JKJK ILIL ABAB| A song for the death day of the brave | A |
| A song of pride | B |
| The youth went down to a hero's grave | A |
| With the sword his bride | B |
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| He went with his noble heart unworn | C |
| And pure and high | D |
| An eagle stooping from clouds of morn | C |
| Only to die | D |
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| He went with the lyre whose lofty tone | C |
| Beneath his hand | E |
| Had thrill'd to the name of his God alone | C |
| And his Father land | E |
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| And with all his glorious feelings yet | F |
| In their first glow | G |
| Like a southern stream that no frost hath met | F |
| To chain its flow | G |
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| A song for the death day of the brave | A |
| A song of pride | B |
| For him that went to a hero's grave | A |
| With the sword his bride | B |
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| He hath left a voice in his trumpet lays | H |
| To turn the flight | I |
| And a guiding spirit for after days | H |
| Like a watch fire's light | I |
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| And a grief in his father's soul to rest | J |
| Midst all high thought | K |
| And a memory unto his mother's breast | J |
| With healing fraught | K |
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| And a name and fame above the blight | I |
| Of earthly breath | L |
| Beautiful beautiful and bright | I |
| In life and death | L |
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| A song for the death day of the brave | A |
| A song of pride | B |
| For him that went to a hero's grave | A |
| With the sword his bride | B |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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