The Peasants' Revolt. {35} Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAB DEDDE FGFFG HIJJI KLMML NONNP QRQQL NONNPThro' the mists of years | A |
Thro' the lies of men | B |
Your bloody sweat and tears | C |
Your desperate hopes and fears | A |
Reach us once again | B |
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Brothers who long ago | D |
For life's bitter sake | E |
Toiled and suffered so | D |
Robbery insult blow | D |
Rope and sword and stake | E |
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Toiled and suffered till | F |
It burst the brightening hope | G |
Might and right and will and skill | F |
That scorned and does and will | F |
Sword and stake and rope | G |
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Wat and Jack and John | H |
Tyler Straw and Ball | I |
Souls that faltered not | J |
Hearts like white iron hot | J |
Still we hear your call | I |
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Yes your bell is rung | K |
Yes for now is time | L |
Come hither every one | M |
Brave ghosts whose day's not done | M |
Avengers of old rime | L |
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Come and lead the way | N |
Hushed implacable | O |
Suffering no delay | N |
Forgetting not that day | N |
Dreadful hateful fell | P |
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When the liar king | Q |
The liar gentlemen | R |
Wrought that foulest thing | Q |
Robbing murdering | Q |
Men who'd trusted them | L |
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Come and lead the way | N |
Hushed implacable | O |
What shall stop us say | N |
On that day our day | N |
Not unloosened hell | P |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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