The Three Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDDEE FGFFGHHEE IIHHJJKK LMNNOOPP

The poet sang of a battle fieldA
Where doughty deeds were doneB
Where stout blows rang on helm and shieldA
And a kingdom's fate was spunB
With the scarlet thread of victoryC
And honor from death's grim revelryC
Like a flame red flower was wonB
So bravely he sang that all who heardD
With the sting of the fight and the triumph were stirredD
And they cried Let us blazon his name on highE
He has sung a song that will never dieE
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Again full throated he sang of fameF
And ambition's honeyed lureG
Of the chaplet that garlands a mighty nameF
Till his listeners fired with the god like flameF
To do to dare to endureG
The thirsty lips of the world were fainH
The cup of glamor he vaunted to drainH
And the people murmured as he went byE
He has sung a song that will never dieE
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And once more he sang all low and apartI
A song of the love that was born in his heartI
Thinking to voice in unfettered strainH
Its sweet delight and its sweeter painH
Nothing he cared what the throngs might sayJ
Who passed him unheeding from day to dayJ
For he only longed with his melodiesK
The soul of the one beloved to pleaseK
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The song of war that he sang is as naughtL
For the field and its heroes are long forgotM
And the song he sang of fame and powerN
Was never remembered beyond its hourN
Only to day his name is knownO
By the song he sang apart and aloneO
And the great world pauses with joy to hearP
The notes that were strung for a lover's earP

Lucy Maud Montgomery



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