On What Is Best Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCBC DBDBEFGF HIJIHKB| Some celebrate the beauty | A |
| of knights or infantry | A |
| or billowing flotillas | B |
| at battle on the sea | B |
| Warfare has its glory | B |
| but I place far above | C |
| these military splendors | B |
| the one thing that you love | C |
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| For proof of this contention | D |
| examine history | B |
| we all remember Helen | D |
| who left her family | B |
| her child and royal husband | E |
| to take a stranger's hand | F |
| her beauty had no equal | G |
| but bowed to love's command | F |
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| As love then is the power | H |
| that none can disobey | I |
| so too my thoughts must follow | J |
| my darling far away | I |
| the sparkle of her laughter | H |
| would give me greater joy | K |
| than all the bronze clad heroes | B |
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