Qui Vive? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAABCCDEED FGHHHGIIJKKJ LHLLLHCCMNNM| Qui vive The sentry's musket rings | A |
| The channelled bayonet gleams | B |
| High o'er him like a raven's wings | A |
| The broad tricolored banner flings | A |
| Its shadow rustling as it swings | A |
| Pale in the moonlight beams | B |
| Pass on while steel clad sentries keep | C |
| Their vigil o'er the monarch's sleep | C |
| Thy bare unguarded breast | D |
| Asks not the unbroken bristling zone | E |
| That girds yon sceptred trembler's throne | E |
| Pass on and take thy rest | D |
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| Qui vive How oft the midnight air | F |
| That startling cry has borne | G |
| How oft the evening breeze has fanned | H |
| The banner of this haughty land | H |
| O'er mountain snow and desert sand | H |
| Ere yet its folds were torn | G |
| Through Jena's carnage flying red | I |
| Or tossing o'er Marengo's dead | I |
| Or curling on the towers | J |
| Where Austria's eagle quivers yet | K |
| And suns the ruffled plumage wet | K |
| With battle's crimson showers | J |
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| Qui vive And is the sentry's cry | L |
| The sleepless soldier's hand | H |
| Are these the painted folds that fly | L |
| And lift their emblems printed high | L |
| On morning mist and sunset sky | L |
| The guardians of a land | H |
| No If the patriot's pulses sleep | C |
| How vain the watch that hirelings keep | C |
| The idle flag that waves | M |
| When Conquest with his iron heel | N |
| Treads down the standards and the steel | N |
| That belt the soil of slaves | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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