Spanish Peasant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHJ KLKLMNMN| We have no aspiration vain | A |
| For paradise Utopian | B |
| And here in our sun happy Spain | A |
| Though man exploit his fellow man | C |
| To high constraint we humbly yield | D |
| And turn from politics to toil | E |
| Content to till a kindly field | D |
| And bring forth bounty from the soil | E |
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| They tell us wars will never cease | F |
| They sy the world is out of joint | G |
| How well we Know But peace is peace | F |
| Even imposed at pistol point | G |
| And we have learnt our lesson well | H |
| By many a death by many a tear | I |
| So let us live a feudal spell | H |
| The cost of freedom is too dear | J |
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| Let us be the cattle kind | K |
| Praying the goad be not a sword | L |
| In servitude obeying blind | K |
| The tyrant ruling of our Lord | L |
| His army can be swift to slay | M |
| His Church teach us humility | N |
| But never never will we pay | M |
| Again blood price for Liberty | N |
Robert William Service
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