A Broken Sword. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FDFD GHGH DIDI JKJK LMLM| To A L | A |
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| The shopman shambled from the doorway out | B |
| And twitched it down | C |
| Snapped in the blade 'Twas scarcely dear I doubt | B |
| At half a crown | C |
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| Useless enough And yet can still be seen | D |
| In letters clear | E |
| Traced on the metal's rusty damaskeen | D |
| Povr Paruenyr | E |
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| Whose was it once Who manned it once in hope | F |
| His fate to gain | D |
| Who was it dreamed his oyster world should ope | F |
| To this in vain | D |
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| Maybe with some stout Argonaut it sailed | G |
| The Western Seas | H |
| Maybe but to some paltry Nym availed | G |
| For toasting cheese | H |
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| Or decked by Beauty on some morning lawn | D |
| With silken knot | I |
| Perchance ere night for Church and King 'twas drawn | D |
| Perchance 'twas not | I |
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| Who knows or cares To day 'mid foils and gloves | J |
| Its hilt depends | K |
| Flanked by the favours of forgotten loves | J |
| Remembered friends | K |
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| And oft its legend lends in hours of stress | L |
| A word to aid | M |
| Or like a warning comes in puffed success | L |
| Its broken blade | M |
Henry Austin Dobson
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