Gillespie. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEF AGDG HIJI KEL MNKN KCOC DPQP HEK RSOS OTUT VHWH MXYX KDADRiding at dawn riding alone | A |
Gillespie left the town behind | B |
Before he turned by the Westward road | C |
A horseman crossed him staggering blind | B |
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'The Devil's abroad in false Vellore | D |
The Devil that stabs by night ' he said | E |
'Women and children rank and file | F |
Dying and dead dying and dead ' | - |
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Without a word without a groan | A |
Sudden and swift Gillespie turned | G |
The blood roared in his ears like fire | D |
Like fire the road beneath him burned | G |
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He thundered back to Arcot gate | H |
He thundered up through Arcot town | I |
Before he thought a second thought | J |
In the barrack yard he lighted down | I |
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'Trumpeter sound for the Light Dragoons | K |
Sound to saddle and spur ' he said | E |
'He that is ready may ride with me | L |
And he that can may ride ahead ' | - |
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Fierce and fain fierce and fain | M |
Behind him went the troopers grim | N |
They rode as ride the Light Dragoons | K |
But never a man could ride with him | N |
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Their rowels ripped their horses' sides | K |
Their hearts were red with a deeper goad | C |
But ever alone before them all | O |
Gillespie rode Gillespie rode | C |
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Alone he came to false Vellore | D |
The walls were lined the gates were barred | P |
Alone he walked where the bullets bit | Q |
And called above to the Sergeant's Guard | P |
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'Sergeant Sergeant over the gate | H |
Where are your officers all ' he said | E |
Heavily came the Sergeant's voice | K |
'There are two living and forty dead ' | - |
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'A rope a rope ' Gillespie cried | R |
They bound their belts to serve his need | S |
There was not a rebel behind the wall | O |
But laid his barrel and drew his bead | S |
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There was not a rebel among them all | O |
But pulled his trigger and cursed his aim | T |
For lightly swung and rightly swung | U |
Over the gate Gillespie came | T |
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He dressed the line he led the charge | V |
They swept the wall like a stream in spate | H |
And roaring over the roar they heard | W |
The galloper guns that burst the gate | H |
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Fierce and fain fierce and fain | M |
The troopers rode the reeking flight | X |
The very stones remember still | Y |
The end of them that stab by night | X |
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They've kept the tale a hundred years | K |
They'll keep the tale a hundred more | D |
Riding at dawn riding alone | A |
Gillespie came to false Vellore | D |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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