The Assault Heroic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMMNOPPQRSSTTUUVVWW XXYYEETTTT| Down in the mud I lay | A |
| Tired out by my long day | A |
| Of five damned days and nights | B |
| Five sleepless days and nights | B |
| Dream snatched and set me where | C |
| The dungeon of Despair | C |
| Looms over Desolate Sea | D |
| Frowning and threatening me | D |
| With aspect high and steep | E |
| A most malignant keep | E |
| My foes that lay within | F |
| Shouted and made a din | F |
| Hooted and grinned and cried | G |
| Today we've killed your pride | G |
| Today your ardour ends | H |
| We've murdered all your friends | H |
| We've undermined by stealth | I |
| Your happiness and your health | I |
| We've taken away your hope | J |
| Now you may droop and mope | J |
| To misery and to Death | K |
| But with my spear of Faith | L |
| Stout as an oaken rafter | M |
| With my round shield of laughter | M |
| With my sharp tongue like sword | N |
| That speaks a bitter word | O |
| I stood beneath the wall | P |
| And there defied them all | P |
| The stones they cast I caught | Q |
| And alchemized with thought | R |
| Into such lumps of gold | S |
| As dreaming misers hold | S |
| The boiling oil they threw | T |
| Fell in a shower of dew | T |
| Refreshing me the spears | U |
| Flew harmless by my ears | U |
| Struck quivering in the sod | V |
| There like the prophet's rod | V |
| Put leaves out took firm root | W |
| And bore me instant fruit | W |
| My foes were all astounded | X |
| Dumbstricken and confounded | X |
| Gaping in a long row | Y |
| They dared not thrust nor throw | Y |
| Thus then I climbed a steep | E |
| Buttress and won the keep | E |
| And laughed and proudly blew | T |
| My horn Stand to Stand to | T |
| Wake up sir Here's a new | T |
| Attack Stand to Stand to | T |
Robert Graves
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