Incident Of The French Camp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGF HIHI A JKJKLHLH M FBFBFNFN M MFAFOPOP| I | A |
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| You know we French stormed Ratisbon | B |
| A mile or so away | C |
| On a little mound Napoleon | B |
| Stood on our storming day | C |
| With neck out thrust you fancy how | D |
| Legs wide arms locked behind | E |
| As if to balance the prone brow | D |
| Oppressive with its mind | E |
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| II | A |
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| Just as perhaps he mused My plans | F |
| That soar to earth may fall | G |
| Let once my army leader Lannes | F |
| Waver at yonder wall '' | - |
| Out 'twixt the battery smokes there flew | H |
| A rider bound on bound | I |
| Full galloping nor bridle drew | H |
| Until he reached the mound | I |
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| III | A |
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| Then off there flung in smiling joy | J |
| And held himself erect | K |
| By just his horse's mane a boy | J |
| You hardly could suspect | K |
| So tight he kept his lips compressed | L |
| Scarce any blood came through | H |
| You looked twice ere you saw his breast | L |
| Was all but shot in two | H |
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| IV | M |
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| Well '' cried he Emperor by God's grace | F |
| We've got you Ratisbon | B |
| The Marshal's in the market place | F |
| And you'll be there anon | B |
| To see your flag bird flap his vans | F |
| Where I to heart's desire | N |
| Perched him '' The chief's eye flashed his plans | F |
| Soared up again like fire | N |
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| V | M |
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| The chief's eye flashed but presently | M |
| Softened itself as sheathes | F |
| A film the mother eagle's eye | A |
| When her bruised eaglet breathes | F |
| You're wounded '' Nay '' the soldier's pride | O |
| Touched to the quick he said | P |
| I'm killed Sire '' And his chief beside | O |
| Smiling the boy fell dead | P |
Robert Browning
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Sanjay Kumar Das.: In the year 1978 in my schooling day I went through poem. As a teenager the last stanza touched my heart and I have been trying to recollect the name of the poem for a week to show my son. Finally I won the battle.
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