The Resolve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK| IN trumpet toned accents I heard | A |
| A voice in a vision to cry | B |
| 'By threat of no tyrant deterred | A |
| We rear up our banner on high | B |
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| 'No longer tho' feeble and poor | C |
| We'll wear out our days in the dust | D |
| Our freedom we're sworn to procure | E |
| And have it or perish we must | D |
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| 'Far better we rush to the grave | F |
| The bed of each mortal at last | G |
| Than eat the vile bread of the slave | F |
| Than pine as we've pined in the past | G |
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| 'The life of the hero's a boon | H |
| A blossom the meanest must prize | I |
| The life of the faint hearted loon | H |
| A weed that the noble despise | I |
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| 'Then up ' cried the voice and I thought | J |
| While loud the deep accents yet rang | K |
| A turbann'd oppressor was brought | J |
| To think of his deeds with a pang | K |
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Joseph Skipsey
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