Away! Away! Away! Away! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIDI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPP KRKR| Away away away away | A |
| Ye have not kept your secret well | B |
| I will abide that other day | A |
| Those other lands ye tell | B |
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| Has time no leisure left for these | C |
| The acts that ye rehearse | D |
| Is not eternity a lease | E |
| For better deeds than verse | D |
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| Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead | F |
| To know them still alive | G |
| But sweeter if we earn their bread | F |
| And in us they survive | G |
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| Our life should feed the springs of fame | H |
| With a perennial wave | I |
| As ocean feeds the babbling founts | D |
| Which find it in their grave | I |
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| Ye skies dropp gently round my breast | J |
| And be my corselet blue | K |
| Ye earth receive my lance in rest | J |
| My faithful charger you | K |
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| Ye stars my spear heads in the sky | L |
| My arrow tips ye are | M |
| I see the routed foemen fly | L |
| My bright spears fixed are | M |
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| Give me an angel for a foe | N |
| Fix now the place and time | O |
| And straight to meet him I will go | N |
| Above the starry chime | O |
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| And with our clashing bucklers clang | P |
| The heavenly spears shall ring | Q |
| While bright the northern lights shall hang | P |
| Beside our tourneying | P |
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| And if she lose her champion true | K |
| Tell Heaven not despair | R |
| For I will be her champion new | K |
| Her fame I will repair | R |
Henry David Thoreau
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