Arms And The Man. - The War Horse Draws The Plough Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG HIHI| At last our Fathers saw the Treaty sealed | A |
| Victory unhelmed her broad majestic brow | B |
| The Sword became a Sickle in the field | A |
| The war horse drew the plough | B |
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| There is a time when men shape for their Land | C |
| Its institutions 'mid some tempests' roar | D |
| Just as the waves that thunder on the strand | C |
| Shape out and round the shore | D |
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| Then comes a day when institutions turn | E |
| And carve the men or cast them into moulds | F |
| One Era trembles while volcanoes burn | E |
| Another Age beholds | F |
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| The hardened lava changed to hills and leas | F |
| With blooming glades and orchards intermixed | G |
| Vineyards which look abroad o'er purple seas | F |
| And deep foundations fixed | G |
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| So when fell Chaos like a baleful Fate | H |
| What we had won seemed bent to snatch away | I |
| Sound thinkers rose who fashioned out the State | H |
| As potters fashion clay | I |
James Barron Hope
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