He Fell Among Thieves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KBKB LMLM NLNL OPOP QRQR STST UVWUW| Ye have robbed said he ye have slaughtered and made an end | A |
| Take your ill got plunder and bury the dead | B |
| What will ye more of your guest and sometime friend | A |
| Blood for our blood they said | B |
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| He laughed If one may settle the score for five | C |
| I am ready but let the reckoning stand til day | D |
| I have loved the sunlight as dearly as any alive | C |
| You shall die at dawn said they | D |
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| He flung his empty revolver down the slope | E |
| He climbed alone to the Eastward edge of the trees | F |
| All night long in a dream untroubled of hope | E |
| He brooded clasping his knees | F |
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| He did not hear the monotonous roar that fills | G |
| The ravine where the Yassin river sullenly flows | H |
| He did not see the starlight on the Laspur hills | G |
| Or the far Afghan snows | H |
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| He saw the April noon on his books aglow | I |
| The wistaria trailing in at the window wide | J |
| He heard his father's voice from the terrace below | I |
| Calling him down to ride | J |
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| He saw the gray little church across the park | K |
| The mounds that hid the loved and honoured dead | B |
| The Norman arch the chancel softly dark | K |
| The brasses black and red | B |
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| He saw the School Close sunny and green | L |
| The runner beside him the stand by the parapet wall | M |
| The distant tape and the crowd roaring between | L |
| His own name over all | M |
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| He saw the dark wainscot and timbered roof | N |
| The long tables and the faces merry and keen | L |
| The College Eight and their trainer dining aloof | N |
| The Dons on the dais serene | L |
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| He watched the liner's stem ploughing the foam | O |
| He felt her trembling speed and the thrash of her screw | P |
| He heard the passengers' voices talking of home | O |
| He saw the flag she flew | P |
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| And now it was dawn He rose strong on his feet | Q |
| And strode to his ruined camp below the wood | R |
| He drank the breath of the morning cool and sweet | Q |
| His murderers round him stood | R |
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| Light on the Laspur hills was broadening fast | S |
| The blood red snow peaks chilled to dazzling white | T |
| He turned and saw the golden circle at last | S |
| Cut by the Eastern height | T |
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| O glorious Life Who dwellest in earth and sun | U |
| I have lived I praise and adore Thee | V |
| A sword swept | W |
| Over the pass the voices one by one | U |
| Faded and the hill slept | W |
Henry Newbolt
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