The Destruction Of Sennacherib Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIDD IIJJThe Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold | A |
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold | A |
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea | B |
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee | B |
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Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green | C |
That host with their banners at sunset were seen | C |
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown | D |
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown | D |
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast | E |
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed | E |
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill | F |
And their hearts but once heaved and for ever grew still | F |
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And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide | G |
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride | G |
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf | H |
And cold as the spray of the rock beating surf | H |
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And there lay the rider distorted and pale | I |
With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail | I |
And the tents were all silent the banners alone | D |
The lances unlifted the trumpet unblown | D |
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And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail | I |
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal | I |
And the might of the Gentile unsmote by the sword | J |
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord | J |
George Gordon Byron
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