On Leaving Newstead Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDCD CBCB EFEG EHEH E IAIA IAIA BABA JBJB| Why dost thou build the hall Son of the winged days Thou lookest | A |
| from thy tower to day yet a few years and the blast of the desart | A |
| comes it howls in thy empty court Ossian | B |
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| Through thy battlements Newstead the hollow winds whistle | C |
| Thou the hall of my Fathers art gone to decay | D |
| In thy once smiling garden the hemlock and thistle | C |
| Have choak'd up the rose which late bloom'd in the way | D |
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| Of the mail cover'd Barons who proudly to battle | C |
| Led their vassals from Europe to Palestine's plain | B |
| The escutcheon and shield which with ev'ry blast rattle | C |
| Are the only sad vestiges now that remain | B |
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| No more doth old Robert with harp stringing numbers | E |
| Raise a flame in the breast for the war laurell'd wreath | F |
| Near Askalon's towers John of Horistan slumbers | E |
| Unnerv'd is the hand of his minstrel by death | G |
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| Paul and Hubert too sleep in the valley of Cressy | E |
| For the safety of Edward and England they fell | H |
| My Fathers the tears of your country redress ye | E |
| How you fought how you died still her annals can tell | H |
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| On Marston with Rupert 'gainst traitors contending | I |
| Four brothers enrich'd with their blood the bleak field | A |
| For the rights of a monarch their country defending | I |
| Till death their attachment to royalty seal'd | A |
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| Shades of heroes farewell your descendant departing | I |
| From the seat of his ancestors bids you adieu | A |
| Abroad or at home your remembrance imparting | I |
| New courage he'll think upon glory and you | A |
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| Though a tear dim his eye at this sad separation | B |
| 'Tis nature not fear that excites his regret | A |
| Far distant he goes with the same emulation | B |
| The fame of his Fathers he ne'er can forget | A |
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| That fame and that memory still will he cherish | J |
| He vows that he ne'er will disgrace your renown | B |
| Like you will he live or like you will he perish | J |
| When decay'd may he mingle his dust with your own | B |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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