Arms And The Man. - The Beginning Of The End Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK LMLM NONO PJPJ QRQR STST UVUV SVSV WXWX| As some spent gladiator struck by Death | A |
| Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines | B |
| For one last effort gathers all his breath | A |
| England draws in her lines | B |
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| Her blood red flag floats out full fair but flows | C |
| O'er crumbling bastions in fictitious state | D |
| Who stands a siege Cornwallis full well knows | C |
| Plays at a game with Fate | D |
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| Siege means surrender at the bitter end | E |
| From Ilium downward such the sword made rule | F |
| With few exceptions few indeed amend | E |
| This law in any school | F |
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| The student who for these has ever sought | G |
| 'Mid his exceptions C sar counts as one | H |
| Besieger and besieged he victor fought | G |
| Under a Gallic sun | H |
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| For Vircinget'rex failed but at the wall | I |
| He strove and failed gilded by Glory's rays | J |
| So that true soldiership describes that Gaul | I |
| In terms of honest praise | J |
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| But there was not a Julius in the lines | B |
| Round which our Chief the fatal leaguer drew | K |
| The noble Earl though valiant never shines | B |
| 'Mid War's majestic few | K |
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| By hopes and fears in agonies long tossed | L |
| Clinton hard fixed in method's rigid groove | M |
| The British Leader saw the game was lost | L |
| But still it had one move | M |
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| Could he attain yon spreading Gloucester shore | N |
| Could he and his cross York's majestic tide | O |
| He then might laugh to hear the cannon roar | N |
| And far for safety ride | O |
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| Bold was the plan and generous Light Horse Lee | P |
| Gives it full measure of unstinted praise | J |
| But PROVIDENCE declared this should not be | P |
| In its own wondrous ways | J |
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| Loud roared the storm The rattling thunders rang | Q |
| Against the blast his rowers could not row | R |
| White waves like hoary headed Homers sang | Q |
| Hexameters of woe | R |
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| Then came the time to end the mighty Play | S |
| To drop the curtain and to quench the lamps | T |
| And soon the story took its jocund way | S |
| Through all the Allied camps | T |
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| Measure for measure then was righteous law | U |
| The cup of Lincoln bowed Cornwallis pressed | V |
| And as he drank the wondering Nations saw | U |
| A sunrise in the West | V |
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| Death fell upon the Royal cause that day | S |
| The King stood like Swift's oak with blighted crest | V |
| Headpiece and Crown both cleft he drooped away | S |
| Hic jacet tells the rest | V |
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| And patriots stood where traitors late were jeered | W |
| Transformed from rebels into freemen bold | X |
| What seemed Membrino's helmet now appeared | W |
| A real casque of gold | X |
James Barron Hope
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