Runic Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF DGDG DEDE HIHI ABCB| O the force of Runic verses | A |
| O the mighty strength of song | B |
| Cannot baffle all the curses | C |
| Which to mortal state belong | B |
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| Slaughter'd chiefs that buried under | D |
| Heaps of marble long have lain | E |
| Song can rend your tomb asunder | D |
| Give ye life and strength again | F |
| - | |
| When around his dying capture | D |
| Fierce the serpent draws his fold | G |
| Song can make him wild with rapture | D |
| Straight uncoil and bite the mould | G |
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| When from keep and battled tower | D |
| Flames to heaven upward strain | E |
| Song has o'er them greater power | D |
| Than the vapours dropping rain | E |
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| It can quench the conflagration | H |
| Striding o'er the works of art | I |
| But nor song nor incantation | H |
| Can appease love's cruel smart | I |
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| O the force of Runic verses | A |
| O the mighty strength of song | B |
| Cannot baffle all the curses | C |
| Which to mortal state belong | B |
George Borrow
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