To-- : From The French Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JDJDDKDK LMLMNONO KPKPKQKQ| Must thou go my glorious Chief | A |
| Sever'd from thy faithful few | B |
| Who can tell thy warrior's grief | A |
| Maddening o'er that long adieu | B |
| Woman's love and friendship's zeal | C |
| Dear as both have been to me | D |
| What are they to all I feel | C |
| With a soldier's faith for thee | D |
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| Idol of the soldier's soul | E |
| First in fight but mightiest now | F |
| Many could a world control | E |
| Thee alone no doom can bow | F |
| By thy side for years I dared | G |
| Death and envied those who fell | H |
| When their dying shout was heard | I |
| Blessing him they served so well | H |
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| Would that I were cold with those | J |
| Since this hour I live to see | D |
| When the doubts of coward foes | J |
| Scarce dare trust a man with thee | D |
| Dreading each should set thee free | D |
| Oh although in dungeons pent | K |
| All their chains were light to me | D |
| Gazing on thy soul unbent | K |
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| Would the sycophants of him | L |
| Now so deaf to duty's prayer | M |
| Were his borrow'd glories dim | L |
| In his native darkness share | M |
| Were that world this hour his own | N |
| All thou calmly dost resign | O |
| Could he purchase with that throne | N |
| Hearts like those which still are thine | O |
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| My chief my king my friend adieu | K |
| Never did I droop before | P |
| Never to my sovereign sue | K |
| As his foes I now implore | P |
| All I ask is to divide | K |
| Every peril he must brave | Q |
| Sharing by the hero's side | K |
| His fall his exile and his grave | Q |
George Gordon Byron
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