Clay-s Defeat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GCGC EHEH GIGJ| 'Tis the hope of the noble defeated | A |
| The aim of the marksman is vain | B |
| The wish of destruction completed | A |
| The soldier eternally slain | B |
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| When winter succeeds to the summer | C |
| The bird is too chilly to sing | D |
| No music is play'd for the drummer | C |
| No carol is heard on the wing | D |
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| The court of a nation forsaken | E |
| An edifice stripp'd of its dome | F |
| Its fame from her pinnacle shaken | E |
| Like the sigh heaving downfall of Rome | F |
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| Fall'n fall'n is the chief of the witty | G |
| The prince of republican power | C |
| The star crown of Washington City | G |
| Descends his political tower | C |
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| The gold plated seat is bespoken | E |
| The brave of the west is before | H |
| The bowl at the fountain is broken | E |
| The music of fame is no more | H |
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| No longer a wonderful story | G |
| Is told for the brave whig to hear | I |
| Whose sun leaves his circuit of glory | G |
| Or sinks from the light of his sphere | J |
George Moses Horton
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