We Sate Down And Wept By The Waters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBC ADEDEDE AFGFGFG| I | A |
| We sate down and wept by the waters | B |
| Of Babel and thought of the day | C |
| When our foe in the hue of his slaughters | B |
| Made Salem's high places his prey | C |
| And ye oh her desolate daughters | B |
| Were scattered all weeping away | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| While sadly we gazed on the river | D |
| Which roll'd on in freedom below | E |
| They demanded the song but oh never | D |
| That triumph the stranger shall know | E |
| May this right hand be withered for ever | D |
| Ere it string our high harp for the foe | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| On the willow that harp is suspended | F |
| Oh Salem its sound should be free | G |
| And the hour when thy glories were ended | F |
| But left me that token of thee | G |
| And ne'er shall its soft tones be blended | F |
| With the voice of the spoiler by me | G |
George Gordon Byron
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