Do Kings Put Faith In Fortressed Walls, And Bar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDDEFD DGDHIHIJKLEKLK| Do kings put faith in fortressed walls and bar | A |
| Their cities' gates as strong to keep out war | B |
| The constancy of friends is stronger far | A |
| Are lilies pure that in some vale unknown | C |
| Unplucked have blossomed and unpraised have blown | C |
| The constancy of friends is purer | D |
| The constancy of friends is lovelier | D |
| Than fame or fortune past all riches dear | D |
| Impossible to soil by foulest breath | E |
| Their crown is rarer than the conqueror's wreath | F |
| And all their joy securer | D |
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| Then let our love be simple steadfast true | D |
| And we will Fate and all her arms defy | G |
| With that blind conflict what have we to do | D |
| However stabbed at by Adversity | H |
| The mortal foe is slain mistrust the dread | I |
| Lest our love lean upon uncertainty | H |
| Mistrust that poisons the mind's daily bread | I |
| And kills its needful faith | J |
| For us since our joined hands have made us brave | K |
| Not ev'n Love's boastful foes | L |
| Estranging Time nor separating Death | E |
| Shall call us slave | K |
| So that we keep perfect the name of those | L |
| Who did not buy each other's hearts but gave | K |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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