What Turned The Germans Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB CDEDFF GHGIAJ KLKLDD| WHAT turned the German myriads back | A |
| From Paris whither they had won | B |
| The sword dropped from their hold grown slack | A |
| Children of Attila the Hun | B |
| Like Attila went backward driven | B |
| By a young shepherdess of Heaven | B |
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| A shepherdess is Genevieve | C |
| And though her flock should wander light | D |
| This shepherdess is quick to save | E |
| The black the speckled and the white | D |
| She takes her golden crook and goes | F |
| And deals destruction to its foes | F |
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| She who turned Attila back so slim | G |
| A shepherdess that keeps the flock | H |
| Waited as once she did for him | G |
| Slight as a reed or her own crook | I |
| 'Turn back in God's Name ' They went back | A |
| The tide is stemmed for her sweet sake | J |
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| White Genevieve upon her hill | K |
| Prays and the German hosts retreat | L |
| She plucks the Robes of Heaven still | K |
| That Heaven give victory for defeat | L |
| And keeps her motley flock in sight | D |
| The black the speckled and the white | D |
Katharine Tynan
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