The Conqueror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEDEFFGGHHIAJACE KKEELMNMOOEEPQRSRSTT| Not the Prussian the forsworn | A |
| By whose fury overborne | A |
| Martyred Belgium you lie | B |
| Bruised with all injury | C |
| Through your peace red paths he clove | D |
| Burning slaying making spoil | E |
| Of your shining treasure trove | D |
| Ancient wisdom beauty toil | E |
| Drenching hearth and shrine and sod | F |
| With the blood that cries to God | F |
| Futile all that savage force | G |
| Time in his aeonian course | G |
| Still shall clarion your fame | H |
| Yours the triumph his the shame | H |
| On your honor he made war | I |
| But his guns have battered down | A |
| Only forts Inheritor | J |
| Of unparalleled renown | A |
| Belgium your name shall be | C |
| Brighter than Thermopyl | E |
| None could scorn you had you said | K |
| 'Hopeless are the odds and dread | K |
| Will the fiery vengeance fall | E |
| On our homes In vain we call | E |
| For help that still delays We yield ' | L |
| But unflinching from your fate | M |
| Up you flung your slender shield | N |
| Bore the onset held the gate | M |
| For the priceless hour and saved | O |
| Liberty yourself enslaved | O |
| No thrust down to serfdom still | E |
| Your unmasterable will | E |
| Your high fortitude and faith | P |
| Outwear exile anguish death | Q |
| On his strip of coast your king | R |
| Holds your glorious flag unfurled | S |
| Your great priest unfaltering | R |
| Peals the truth across the world | S |
| With your neck beneath the sword | T |
| You are victor you are lord | T |
Katharine Lee Bates
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