Arms And The Man. - The Surrender Of Lord Cornwallis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFFGGHHII| Next came the closing scene but shall I paint | A |
| The scarlet column sullen slow and faint | A |
| Which marched with colors cased to yonder field | B |
| Where Britain threw down corslet sword and shield | B |
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| Shall I depict the anguish of the brave | C |
| Who envied comrades sleeping in the grave | C |
| Shall I exult o'er inoffensive dust | D |
| Of valiant men whose swords have turned to rust | D |
| Shall I like Menelaus by the coast | E |
| O'er dead Ajaces make unmanly boast | E |
| Shall I in chains of an ignoble Verse | F |
| Degrade dead Hectors and their pangs rehearse | F |
| Nay such is not the mood this People feels | G |
| Their chariots drag no foemen by the heels | G |
| Let Ajax slumber by the sounding sea | H |
| From the fell passion of his madness free | H |
| Let Hector's ashes unmolested sleep | I |
| But not to day shall any Priam weep | I |
James Barron Hope
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