The Battle Of Moncontour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGCC HHII JJKK| Oh weep for Moncontour Oh weep for the hour | A |
| When the children of darkness and evil had power | A |
| When the horsemen of Valois triumphantly trod | B |
| On the bosoms that bled for their rights and their God | B |
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| Oh weep for Moncontour Oh weep for the slain | C |
| Who for faith and for freedom lay slaughtered in vain | C |
| Oh weep for the living who linger to bear | D |
| The renegade's shame or the exile's despair | D |
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| One look one last look to our cots and our towers | E |
| To the rows of our vines and the beds of our flowers | E |
| To the church where the bones of our fathers decayed | F |
| Where we fondly had deemed that our own would be laid | F |
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| Alas we must leave thee dear desolate home | G |
| To the spearmen of Uri the shavelings of Rome | G |
| To the serpent of Florence the vulture of Spain | C |
| To the pride of Anjou and the guile of Lorraine | C |
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| Farewell to thy fountains farewell to thy shades | H |
| To the song of thy youths and the dance of thy maids | H |
| To the breath of thy gardens the hum of thy bees | I |
| And the long waving line of the blue Pyrenees | I |
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| Farewell and for ever The priest and the slave | J |
| May rule in the halls of the free and the brave | J |
| Our hearths we abandon our lands we resign | K |
| But Father we kneel to no altar but thine | K |
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
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