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The Civil Wars (excerpts) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDEE AFGFGFGHH A IAIAIAJJ I JKJKKKLL MKMKMKII IKIKIKFF A A A KK KNKNKNOO A K K K A I I I KK A KKKKKKKK A KIKIKIPQ A RKRKLKKK I KKKKKKFF IIIIIIKK K SININIRN K KTKOKTKK K KKKKKKKK A KIKIKIKK A IUIVIVKK A KTKOKOKK

XXXVI	A
The swift approach and unexpected speed	B
The king had made upon this new rais'd force	C
In the unconfirmed troops much fear did breed	B
Untimely hind'ring their intended course	C
The joining with the Welsh they had decreed	B
Was hereby dash'd which made their cause the worse	D
Northumberland with forces from the north	E
Expected to be there was not set forth	E
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XXXVII	A
And yet undaunted Hotspur seeing the king	F
So near arriv'd leaving the work in hand	G
With forward speed his forces marshalling	F
Sets forth his farther coming to withstand	G
And with a cheerful voice encouraging	F
His well experienc'd and adventurous band	G
Brings on his army eager unto fight	H
And plac'd the same before the king in sight	H
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XXXVIII	A
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This day saith he my valiant trusty friends	I
Whatever it doth give shall glory give	A
This day with honour frees our state or ends	I
Our misery with fame that still shall live	A
And do but think how well the same he spends	I
Who spends his blood his country to relieve	A
What have we hands and shall we servile be	J
Why were swords made but to preserve men free	J
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XXXIX	I
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Besides the assured hope of victory	J
Which we may even promise on our side	K
Against this weak constrained company	J
Whom force and fear not will and love doth guide	K
Against a prince whose foul impiety	K
The heavens do hate the earth cannot abide	K
Our number being no less our courage more	L
No doubt we have it if we work therefore	L
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XL	-
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This said and thus resolv'd even bent to charge	M
Upon the king who well their order view'd	K
And wary noted all the course at large	M
Of their proceeding and their multitude	K
And deeming better if he could discharge	M
The day with safety and some peace conclude	K
Great proffers sends of pardon and of grace	I
If they would yield and quietness embrace	I
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XLI	-
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Which though his fears might drive him to propose	I
To time his business for some other end	K
Yet sure he could not mean t' have peace with those	I
Who did in that supreme degree offend	K
Nor were they such as would be won with shows	I
Or breath of oaths or vows could apprehend	K
So that in honour the offers he doth make	F
Were not for him to give nor them to take	F
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XLII	-
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And yet this much his courses do approve	A
He was not bloody in his natural	-
And yield he did to more then might behove	A
His dignity to have dispens'd withal	-
And unto Worcester he himself did move	A
A reconcilement to be made of all	-
But Worcester knowing it could not be secur'd	K
His nephews onset yet for all procur'd	K
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XLIII	-
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Which seeing the king with greater wrath incens'd	K
Rage against fury doth with speed prepare	N
And though said he I could have well dispens'd	K
With this day's blood which I have sought to spare	N
That greater glory might have recompens'd	K
The forward worth of these that so much dare	N
That we might good have had by th' overthrown	O
And the wounds we make might not have been our own	O
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XLIV	A
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Yet since that other men's iniquity	K
Calls on the sword of wrath against my will	-
And that themselves exact this cruelty	K
And I constrained am this blood to spill	-
Then on brave followers on courageously	K
True hearted subjects against traitors ill	-
And spare not them who seek to spoil us all	-
Whose foul confused end soon see you shall	-
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XLV	A
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Forthwith began these fury moving sounds	I
The notes of wrath the music brought from Hell	-
The rattling drums which trumpets voice confounds	I
The cries the encouragements the shouting shrill	-
That all about the beaten air rebounds	I
Confused thundering murmurs horrible	-
To rob all sense except the sense to fight	K
Well hands may work the mind hath lost his sight	K
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XLVI	A
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O war begot in pride and luxury	K
The child of malice and revengeful hate	K
Thou impious good and good impiety	K
That art the foul refiner of a state	K
Unjust just scourge of men's iniquity	K
Sharp easer of corruptions desperate	K
Is there no means but that a sin sick land	K
Must be let blood with such a boisterous hand	K
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XLVII	A
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How well mightst thou have here been spar'd this day	K
Had not wrong counsell'd Percy been perverse	I
Whose forward hand inur'd to wounds makes way	K
Upon the sharpest fronts of the most fierce	I
Where now an equal fury thrusts to stay	K
And back repel that force and his disperse	I
Then these assail then those re chase again	P
Till stay'd with new made hills of bodies slain	Q
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XLVIII	A
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There lo that new appearing glorious star	R
Wonder of arms the terror of the field	K
Young Henry labouring where the stoutest are	R
And even the stoutest forced back to yield	K
There is that hand bolden'd to blood and war	L
That must the sword in wondrous actions wield	K
Though better he had learn'd with others' blood	K
A less expense to us to him more good	K
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XLIX	I
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Yet here had he not speedy succour lent	K
To his endanger'd father near oppress'd	K
That day had seen the full accomplishment	K
Of all his travails and his final rest	K
For Mars like Douglas all his forces bent	K
To encounter and to grapple with the best	K
As if disdaining any other thing	F
To do that day but to subdue a king	F
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L	-
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And three with fiery courage he assails	I
Three all as kings adorn'd in royal wise	I
And each successive after other quails	I
Still wond'ring whence so many kings should rise	I
And doubting lest his hand or eyesight fails	I
In these confounded on a fourth he flies	I
And him unhorses too whom had he sped	K
He then all kings in him had vanquished	K
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LI	K
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For Henry had divided as it were	S
The person of himself into four parts	I
To be less known and yet known everywhere	N
The more to animate his people's hearts	I
Who cheered by his presence would not spare	N
To execute their best and worthiest parts	I
By which two special things effected are	R
His safety and his subjects' better care	N
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LII	K
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And never worthy prince a day did quit	K
With greater hazard and with more renown	T
Than thou didst mighty Henry in this fight	K
Which only made thee owner of thine own	O
Thou never prov'dst the tenure of thy right	K
How thou didst hold thy easy gotten crown	T
Till now and now thou shew'st thyself chief lord	K
By that especial right of kings the sword	K
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LIII	K
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And dear it cost and much good blood is shed	K
To purchase thee a saving victory	K
Great Stafford thy high constable lies dead	K
With Shorly Clifton Gawsell Calverly	K
And many more whose brave deaths witnessed	K
Their noble valour and fidelity	K
And many more had left their dearest blood	K
Behind that day had Hotspur longer stood	K
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LIV	A
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But he as Douglas with his fury led	K
Rushing into the thickest woods of spears	I
And brakes of swords still laying at the head	K
The life of th' army whiles he nothing fears	I
Or spares his own comes all invironed	K
With multitude of power that over bears	I
His manly worth who yields not in his fall	K
But fighting dies and dying kills withal	K
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LV	A
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What ark what trophy what magnificence	I
Of glory Hotspur had'st thou purchas'd here	U
Could but thy cause as fair as thy pretence	I
Be made unto thy country to appear	V
Had it been her protection and defence	I
Not thy ambition made thee sell so dear	V
Thyself this day she must have here made good	K
An everlasting statue for thy blood	K
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LVI	A
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Which thus mis spent thy army presently	K
As if they could not stand when thou wert down	T
Dispers'd in rout betook them all to fly	K
And Douglas faint with wounds and overthrown	O
Was taken who yet won the enemy	K
Which took him by his noble valour shown	O
In that day's mighty work and was preserv'd	K
With all the grace and honour he deserv'd	K
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