The Ballad Of Zacho Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFH CICI JKJK LMLM NON PQPQ RSRS BJTJ| a Greek Legend | A |
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| Zacho the King rode out of old | B |
| And truth is what I tell | C |
| With saddle and spurs and a rein of gold | B |
| To find the door of Hell | C |
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| And round around him surged the dead | D |
| With soft and lustrous eyes | E |
| Why came you here old friend they said | D |
| Unwise unwise unwise | E |
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| You should have left to the prince your son | F |
| Spurs and saddle and rein | G |
| Your bright and morning days are done | F |
| You ride not out again | H |
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| I came to greet my friends who fell | C |
| Sword scattered from my side | I |
| And when I've drunk the wine of Hell | C |
| I'll out again and ride | I |
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| But Charon rose and caught his hair | J |
| In fingers sharp and long | K |
| Loose me old ferryman play fair | J |
| Try if my arm be strong | K |
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| Thrice drave he hard on Charon's breast | L |
| And struck him thrice to ground | M |
| Till stranger ghosts came out o' the west | L |
| And sat like stars around | M |
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| And thrice old Charon rose up high | N |
| And seized him as before | O |
| Loose me a broken man am I | N |
| And fight with you no more '' | - |
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| Zacho arise my home is near | P |
| I pray you walk with me | Q |
| I've hung my tent so full of fear | P |
| You well may shake to see | Q |
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| Home to my home come they who fight | R |
| Who fight but not to win | S |
| Without my tent is black as night | R |
| And red as fire within | S |
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| Though winds blow cold and I grow old | B |
| My tent is fast and fair | J |
| The pegs are dead men's stout right arms | T |
| The cords their golden hair | J |
James Elroy Flecker
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