The Last Hero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFF GGHHIIHHJJ AAHHKKLLHH HHHHMMHHNN| The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day | A |
| There was a wreck of trees and fall of towers a score of miles away | A |
| And drifted like a livid leaf I go before its tide | B |
| Spewed out of house and stable beggared of flag and bride | B |
| The heavens are bowed about my head shouting like seraph wars | C |
| With rains that might put out the sun and clean the sky of stars | D |
| Rains like the fall of ruined seas from secret worlds above | E |
| The roaring of the rains of God none but the lonely love | E |
| Feast in my hall O foemen and eat and drink and drain | F |
| You never loved the sun in heaven as I have loved the rain | F |
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| The chance of battle changes so may all battle be | G |
| I stole my lady bride from them they stole her back from me | G |
| I rent her from her red roofed hall I rode and saw arise | H |
| More lovely than the living flowers the hatred in her eyes | H |
| She never loved me never bent never was less divine | I |
| The sunset never loved me the wind was never mine | I |
| Was it all nothing that she stood imperial in duresse | H |
| Silence itself made softer with the sweeping of her dress | H |
| O you who drain the cup of life O you who wear the crown | J |
| You never loved a woman's smile as I have loved her frown | J |
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| The wind blew out from Bergen to the dawning of the day | A |
| They ride and run with fifty spears to break and bar my way | A |
| I shall not die alone alone but kin to all the powers | H |
| As merry as the ancient sun and fighting like the flowers | H |
| How white their steel how bright their eyes I love each laughing knave | K |
| Cry high and bid him welcome to the banquet of the brave | K |
| Yea I will bless them as they bend and love them where they lie | L |
| When on their skulls the sword I swing falls shattering from the sky | L |
| The hour when death is like a light and blood is like a rose | H |
| You never loved your friends my friends as I shall love my foes | H |
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| Know you what earth shall lose to night what rich uncounted loans | H |
| What heavy gold of tales untold you bury with my bones | H |
| My loves in deep dim meadows my ships that rode at ease | H |
| Ruffling the purple plumage of strange and secret seas | H |
| To see this fair earth as it is to me alone was given | M |
| The blow that breaks my brow to night shall break the dome of heaven | M |
| The skies I saw the trees I saw after no eyes shall see | H |
| To night I die the death of God the stars shall die with me | H |
| One sound shall sunder all the spears and break the trumpet's breath | N |
| You never laughed in all your life as I shall laugh in death | N |
G. K. Chesterton
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