Pillage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKLML| They will trample our gardens to mire they will bury our city in fire | A |
| Our women await their desire our children the clang of the chain | B |
| Our grave eyed judges and lords they will bind by the neck with cords | C |
| And harry with whips and swords till they perish of shame or pain | B |
| And the great lapis lazuli dome where the gods of our race had a home | D |
| Will break like a wave from the foam and shred into fiery rain | B |
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| No more on the long summer days shall we walk in the meadow sweet ways | E |
| With the teachers of music and phrase and the masters of dance and design | F |
| No more when the trumpeter calls shall we feast in the white light halls | G |
| For stayed are the soft footfalls of the moon browed bearers of wine | F |
| And lost are the statues of Kings and of Gods with great glorious wings | H |
| And an empire of beautiful things and the lips of the love who was mine | F |
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| We have vanished but not into night though our manhood we sold to delight | I |
| Neglecting the chances of fight unfit for the spear and the bow | J |
| We are dead but our living was great we are dumb but a song of our State | K |
| Will roam in the desert and wait with its burden of long long ago | L |
| Till a scholar from sea bright lands unearth from the years and the sands | M |
| Some image with beautiful hands and know what we want him to know | L |
James Elroy Flecker
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