The Surrender Of Spain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB A CDCD A BEBE F BGBG F BBBB F BFBF| I | A |
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| Land of unconquered Pelayo land of the Cid Campeador | B |
| Sea girdled mother of men Spain name of glory and power | B |
| Cradle of world grasping Emperors grave of the reckless invader | B |
| How art thou fallen my Spain how art thou sunk at this hour | B |
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| II | A |
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| Once thy magnanimous sons trod victors the portals of Asia | C |
| Once the Pacific waves rushed joyful thy banners to see | D |
| For it was Trajan that carried the battle flushed eagles to Dacia | C |
| Cortes that planted thy flag fast by the uttermost sea | D |
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| III | A |
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| Has thou forgotten those days illumined with glory and honor | B |
| When the far isles of the sea thrilled to the tread of Castile | E |
| When every land under Heaven was flecked by the shade of thy banner | B |
| When every beam of the sun flashed on thy conquering steel | E |
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| IV | F |
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| Then through red fields of slaughter through death and defeat and disaster | B |
| Still flared thy banner aloft tattered but free from a stain | G |
| Now to the upstart Savoyard thou bendest to beg for a master | B |
| How the red flush of her shame mars the proud beauty of Spain | G |
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| V | F |
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| Has the red blood run cold that boiled by the Xenil and Darro | B |
| Are the high deeds of the sires sung to the children no more | B |
| On the dun hills of the North hast thou heard of no plough boy Pizarro | B |
| Roams no young swine herd Cortes hid by the Tagus' wild shore | B |
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| VI | F |
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| Once again does Hispania bend low to the yoke of the stranger | B |
| Once again will she rise flinging her gyves in the sea | F |
| Princeling of Piedmont unwitting thou weddest with doubt and with danger | B |
| King over men who have learned all that it costs to be free | F |
John Hay
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