Arms And The Man. - Prologue. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CADA EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Full burnished through the long revolving years | A |
| The ploughshare of a Century to day | B |
| Runs peaceful furrows where a crop of Spears | A |
| Once stood in War's array | B |
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| And we like those who on the Trojan plain | C |
| See hoary secrets wrenched from upturned sods | A |
| Who in their fancy hear resound again | D |
| The battle cry of gods | A |
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| We now this splendid scene before us spread | E |
| Where Freedom's full hexameter began | F |
| Restore our Epic which the Nations read | E |
| As far its thunders ran | F |
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| Here visions throng on People and on Bard | G |
| Ranks all a glitter in battalions massed | H |
| And closed around as like a plum d guard | G |
| They lead us down the Past | H |
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| I see great Shapes in vague confusion march | I |
| Like giant shadows moving vast and slow | J |
| Beneath some torch lit temple's mighty arch | I |
| Where long processions go | J |
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| I see these Shapes before me all unfold | K |
| But ne'er can fix them on the lofty wall | L |
| Nor tell them save as she of Endor told | K |
| What she beheld to Saul | L |
James Barron Hope
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