Arms And The Man. - The Beleaguered Town Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML NOPO QRSR TOOO UVSV OCWC RXRXYR| Behind the town the sun sinks down | A |
| Gilding the vane upon the spire | B |
| While many a wall reels to its fall | C |
| Beneath the fell artillery fire | D |
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| As sinks that sun mortar and gun | E |
| Like living things leap grim and hot | F |
| And far and wide across the tide | G |
| Spray furrows show the flying shot | F |
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| White smoke in clouds yon earthwork shrouds | H |
| Where steeped in battle to the lips | I |
| The French amain pour fiery rain | J |
| On town and walls and English ships | I |
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| That deadly sleet smites lines and fleet | K |
| As closes in the Autumn night | L |
| And Aboville from head to heel | M |
| Thrills with the battle's wild delight | L |
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| At every flash oak timbers crash | N |
| A sudden glare yon frigate dyes | O |
| Then flames up gush and roar and rush | P |
| From deck to where her pennon flies | O |
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| Those flames on high crimson the sky | Q |
| And paint their signals overhead | R |
| And every fold of smoke is rolled | S |
| And woven in Plutonian red | R |
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| All radiant now taffrail and prow | T |
| And hull and cordage beams and spars | O |
| Thus lit she sails on fiery gales | O |
| To purple seas where float the stars | O |
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| Ages ago just such a glow | U |
| Woke Agamemnon's house to joy | V |
| Its red and gold to Argos told | S |
| The long expected fate of Troy | V |
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| So on these heights that flame delights | O |
| The Allies thundering at the wall | C |
| Forewrit they see the land set free | W |
| And Albion's short lived Ilium fall | C |
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| Then as the Lilies turn to red | R |
| Dipped in the battles' wine | X |
| Another picture is outspread | R |
| Where still the figures shine | X |
| The picture of a deadly fray | Y |
| Worthy the pencil of Vernet | R |
James Barron Hope
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