The Effigies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JKJKDLDK MNMNJOJO PAPAQRQR STSTUVUV WXYXKEKE| Warrior whose image on thy tomb | A |
| With shield and crested head | B |
| Sleeps proudly in the purple gloom | A |
| By the stain'd window shed | B |
| The records of thy name and race | C |
| Have faded from the stone | D |
| Yet through a cloud of years I trace | C |
| What thou hast been and done | E |
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| A banner from its flashing spear | F |
| Flung out o'er many a fight | G |
| A war cry ringing far and clear | F |
| And strong to turn the flight | G |
| An arm that bravely bore the lance | H |
| On for the holy shrine | I |
| A haughty heart and a kingly glance | H |
| Chief were not these things thine | I |
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| A lofty place where leaders sate | J |
| Around the council board | K |
| In festive halls a chair of state | J |
| When the blood red wine was pour'd | K |
| A name that drew a prouder tone | D |
| From herald harp and bard | L |
| Surely these things were all thine own | D |
| So hadst thou thy reward | K |
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| Woman whose sculptur'd form at rest | M |
| By the armed knight is laid | N |
| With meek hands folded o'er a breast | M |
| In matron robes array'd | N |
| What was thy tale Oh gentle mate | J |
| Of him the bold and free | O |
| Bound unto his victorious fate | J |
| What bard hath sung of thee | O |
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| He woo'd a bright and burning star | P |
| Thine was the void the gloom | A |
| The straining eye that follow'd far | P |
| His fast receding plume | A |
| The heart sick listening while his steed | Q |
| Sent echoes on the breeze | R |
| The pang but when did Fame take heed | Q |
| Of griefs obscure as these | R |
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| Thy silent and secluded hours | S |
| Thro' many a lonely day | T |
| While bending o'er thy broider'd flowers | S |
| With spirit far away | T |
| Thy weeping midnight prayers for him | U |
| Who fought on Syrian plains | V |
| Thy watchings till the torch grew dim | U |
| These fill no minstrel strains | V |
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| A still sad life was thine long years | W |
| With tasks unguerdon'd fraught | X |
| Deep quiet love submissive tears | Y |
| Vigils of anxious thought | X |
| Prayer at the cross in fervour pour'd | K |
| Alms to the pilgrim given | E |
| Oh happy happier than thy lord | K |
| In that lone path to heaven | E |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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