Louvain 19 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEF D GE HIHI JJ| ii | A |
| But from that blood those ashes there arose | B |
| Not hoped for terror cowering as it ran | C |
| But divine anger flaming upon those | B |
| Defamers of the very name of man | C |
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| Abortions of their blind hyena creed | D |
| Who for ' protection ' of their battle host | E |
| Against the unarmed of them they had made to | F |
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| bleed | D |
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| Whose hearts they had tortured to the utter | G |
| most | E |
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| Without a cause past pardon fired and tore | H |
| The towers of fame and beauty while they shot | I |
| And butchered the defenceless in the door | H |
| But History shall hang them high to rot | I |
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| Unburied in the face of times unborn | J |
| Mankind's abomination and last scorn | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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