The Three Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDDEE FGFFGHHEE IIHHJJKK LMNNOOPPThe poet sang of a battle field | A |
Where doughty deeds were done | B |
Where stout blows rang on helm and shield | A |
And a kingdom's fate was spun | B |
With the scarlet thread of victory | C |
And honor from death's grim revelry | C |
Like a flame red flower was won | B |
So bravely he sang that all who heard | D |
With the sting of the fight and the triumph were stirred | D |
And they cried Let us blazon his name on high | E |
He has sung a song that will never die | E |
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Again full throated he sang of fame | F |
And ambition's honeyed lure | G |
Of the chaplet that garlands a mighty name | F |
Till his listeners fired with the god like flame | F |
To do to dare to endure | G |
The thirsty lips of the world were fain | H |
The cup of glamor he vaunted to drain | H |
And the people murmured as he went by | E |
He has sung a song that will never die | E |
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And once more he sang all low and apart | I |
A song of the love that was born in his heart | I |
Thinking to voice in unfettered strain | H |
Its sweet delight and its sweeter pain | H |
Nothing he cared what the throngs might say | J |
Who passed him unheeding from day to day | J |
For he only longed with his melodies | K |
The soul of the one beloved to please | K |
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The song of war that he sang is as naught | L |
For the field and its heroes are long forgot | M |
And the song he sang of fame and power | N |
Was never remembered beyond its hour | N |
Only to day his name is known | O |
By the song he sang apart and alone | O |
And the great world pauses with joy to hear | P |
The notes that were strung for a lover's ear | P |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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