Hannibal's Oath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFD DDED GHIH BJDE KLDL DMNM EDDD| AND the night was dark and calm | A |
| There was not a breath of air | B |
| The leaves of the grove were still | C |
| As the presence of death were there | B |
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| Only a moaning sound | D |
| Came from the distant sea | E |
| It was as if like life | F |
| It had no tranquillity | D |
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| A warrior and a child | D |
| Pass'd through the sacred wood | D |
| Which like a mystery | E |
| Around the temple stood | D |
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| The warrior's brow was worn | G |
| With the weight of casque and plume | H |
| And sun burnt was his cheek | I |
| And his eye and brow were gloom | H |
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| The child was young and fair | B |
| But the forehead large and high | J |
| And the dark eyes' flashing light | D |
| Seem'd to feel their destiny | E |
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| They enter'd in the temple | K |
| And stood before the shrine | L |
| It stream'd with the victim's blood | D |
| With incense and with wine | L |
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| The ground rock'd beneath their feet | D |
| The thunder shook the dome | M |
| But the boy stood firm and swore | N |
| Eternal hate to Rome | M |
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| There's a page in history | E |
| O'er which tears of blood were wept | D |
| And that page is the record | D |
| How that oath of hate was kept | D |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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