Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Challenge. (birds Of Passage. Flight The Third) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG IJHJ KLML FNFN OLML PQRQ KGSG FTUT VEFE

I have a vague remembranceA
Of a story that is toldB
In some ancient Spanish legendC
Or chronicle of oldB
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It was when brave King SanchezD
Was before Zamora slainE
And his great besieging armyF
Lay encamped upon the plainE
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Don Diego de OrdonezD
Sallied forth in front of allG
And shouted loud his challengeH
To the warders on the wallG
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All the people of ZamoraI
Both the born and the unbornJ
As traitors did he challengeH
With taunting words of scornJ
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The living in their housesK
And in their graves the deadL
And the waters of their riversM
And their wine and oil and breadL
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There is a greater armyF
That besets us round with strifeN
A starving numberless armyF
At all the gates of lifeN
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The poverty stricken millionsO
Who challenge our wine and breadL
And impeach us all as traitorsM
Both the living and the deadL
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And whenever I sit at the banquetP
Where the feast and song are highQ
Amid the mirth and the musicR
I can hear that fearful cryQ
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And hollow and haggard facesK
Look into the lighted hallG
And wasted hands are extendedS
To catch the crumbs that fallG
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For within there is light and plentyF
And odors fill the airT
But without there is cold and darknessU
And hunger and despairT
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And there in the camp of famineV
In wind and cold and rainE
Christ the great Lord of the armyF
Lies dead upon the plainE

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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