Alexander And Phillip Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNOO PQPQRS TUTUVV WEWXYY ZXZXA2A2| HE stood by the river's side | A |
| A conqueror and a king | B |
| None match'd his step of pride | A |
| Amid the armed ring | B |
| And a heavy echo rose from the ground | C |
| As a thousand warriors gather'd round | C |
| And the morning march had been long | D |
| And the noontide sun was high | E |
| And weariness bow'd down the strong | D |
| And heat closed every eye | E |
| And the victor stood by the river's brim | F |
| Whose coolness seem'd but made for him | F |
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| The cypress spread their gloom | G |
| Like a cloak from the noontide beam | H |
| He flung back his dusty plume | G |
| And plunged in the silver stream | H |
| He plunged like the young steed fierce and wild | I |
| He was borne away like the feeble child | I |
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| They took the king to his tent | J |
| From the river's fatal banks | K |
| A cry of terror went | J |
| Like a storm through the Grecian ranks | K |
| Was this the fruit of their glories won | L |
| Was this the death for AMMON'S son | L |
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| Many a leech heard the call | M |
| But each one shrank away | N |
| For heavy upon all | M |
| Was the weight of fear that day | N |
| When a thought of treason a word of death | O |
| Was in each eye and on each breath | O |
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| But one with the royal youth | P |
| Had been from his earliest hour | Q |
| And he knew that his heart was truth | P |
| And he knew that his hand was power | Q |
| He gave what hope his skill might give | R |
| And bade him trust to his faith and live | S |
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| ALEXANDER took the cup | T |
| And from beneath his head a scroll | U |
| He drank the liquor up | T |
| And bade PHILLIP read the roll | U |
| And PHILLIP look'd on the page where shame | V |
| Treason and poison were named with his name | V |
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| An angry flush rose on his brow | W |
| And anger darken'd his eye | E |
| What I have done I would do again now | W |
| If you trust my fidelity | X |
| The king watch'd his face he felt he might dare | Y |
| Trust the faith that was written there | Y |
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| Next day the conqueror rose | Z |
| From a greater conqueror free | X |
| And again he stood amid those | Z |
| Who had died his death to see | X |
| He stood there proud of the lesson he gave | A2 |
| That faith and trust were made for the brave | A2 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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