The General Elliott Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE FBGB BHIH BJKJ LMNM OBPB BBBB| He fell in victory's fierce pursuit | A |
| Holed through and through with shot | B |
| A sabre sweep had hacked him deep | C |
| Twixt neck and shoulderknot | B |
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| The potman cannot well recall | D |
| The ostler never knew | E |
| Whether his day was Malplaquet | B |
| The Boyne or Waterloo | E |
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| But there he hangs for tavern sign | F |
| With foolish bold regard | B |
| For cock and hen and loitering men | G |
| And wagons down the yard | B |
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| Raised high above the hayseed world | B |
| He smokes his painted pipe | H |
| And now surveys the orchard ways | I |
| The damsons clustering ripe | H |
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| He sees the churchyard slabs beyond | B |
| Where country neighbours lie | J |
| Their brief renown set lowly down | K |
| His name assaults the sky | J |
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| He grips the tankard of brown ale | L |
| That spills a generous foam | M |
| Oft times he drinks they say and winks | N |
| At drunk men lurching home | M |
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| No upstart hero may usurp | O |
| That honoured swinging seat | B |
| His seasons pass with pipe and glass | P |
| Until the tale's complete | B |
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| And paint shall keep his buttons bright | B |
| Though all the world's forgot | B |
| Whether he died for England's pride | B |
| By battle or by pot | B |
Robert Graves
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