Ave Caesar! Morituri Te Salutant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST UVUV WEWE| The coup d'etat is blotted out | A |
| With fresher blood with blacker crime | B |
| As midnight horrors put to rout | A |
| The vaguer ghosts of twilight time | B |
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| Greeting from those who are to die | C |
| Hail Caesar Draw the curtains round | D |
| In vain That mournful mocking cry | C |
| Pierces the purple with its sound | D |
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| And they who raise it enter too | E |
| With spectral looks and noiseless tread | F |
| Unbidden hold their dread review | E |
| Beside the Emperor's very bed | F |
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| They sought in his deserted tent | G |
| They found him in the German camp | H |
| They tarry till the oil be spent | G |
| That feeds his life's poor flickering lamp | H |
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| The hope of France the gilded youth | I |
| So answering the trumpet's peal | J |
| As if revealing how in sooth | I |
| The gilding oft o'erlies the steel | J |
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| Soldiers Algeria's sun has spared | K |
| Heroes from Russia's fire and frost | L |
| Grey veterans scarred and scanty haired | K |
| Who wept at word of eagles lost | L |
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| Workmen who leave the rattling looms | M |
| To ply perforce a deadlier trade | N |
| Students who quit their cloudy rooms | M |
| To step within a heavier shade | N |
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| Slow breaking hearts that suffer long | O |
| Blinded and chilled 'neath love's eclipse | P |
| Singing no more the happy song | O |
| By horror frozen on their lips | P |
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| From castled cities battle proof | Q |
| They press to the accusing ranks | R |
| From cottage walls from canvas roof | Q |
| Ere passing to the Stygian banks | R |
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| The thousands famine yet shall waste | S |
| The holocaust disease will claim | T |
| As to God's Judgment Bar they haste | S |
| They gaze on him who is to blame | T |
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| Hail Caesar While Napoleon's star | U |
| From yon horizon beams Farewell | V |
| Setting in exile where afar | U |
| The children of St Louis dwell | V |
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| Come from the past once dreaded ghosts | W |
| Whose number and whose names he knew | E |
| The future plants at countless posts | W |
| Sentries more terrible than you | E |
Mary Hannay Foott
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