An Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFCGGE HHIHJJI A KLMMNNOOPPQRSSTUTUU A VWWXYSMYMZGMA2A2B2SS C2C2D2HNND2HE2NF2F2E 2 AG2G2SSG2AI | A |
NOT with slow funereal sound | B |
Come we to this sacred ground | B |
Not with wailing fife and solemn muffled drum | C |
Bringing a cypress wreath | D |
To lay with bended knee | E |
On the cold brows of Death | F |
Not so dear God we come | C |
But with the trumpets blare | G |
And shot torn battle banners flung to air | G |
As for a victory | E |
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Hark to the measured tread of martial feet | H |
The music and the murmurs of the street | H |
No bugle breathes this day | I |
Disaster and retreat | H |
Hark how the iron lips | J |
Of the great battle ships | J |
Salute the City from her azure Bay | I |
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II | A |
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Time was time was ah unforgotten years | K |
We paid our hero tribute of our tears | L |
But now let go | M |
All sounds and signs and formulas of woe | M |
T is Life not Death we celebrate | N |
To Life not Death we dedicate | N |
This storied bronze whereon is wrought | O |
The lithe immortal figure of our thought | O |
To show forever to men s eyes | P |
Our children s children s children s eyes | P |
How once he stood | Q |
In that heroic mood | R |
He and his dusky braves | S |
So fain of glorious graves | S |
One instant stood and then | T |
Drave through that cloud of purple steel and flame | U |
Which wrapt him held him gave him not again | T |
But in its trampled ashes left to Fame | U |
An everlasting name | U |
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III | A |
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That was indeed to live | V |
At one bold swoop to wrest | W |
From darkling death the best | W |
That death to life can give | X |
He fell as Roland fell | Y |
That day at Roncevaux | S |
With foot upon the ramparts of the foe | M |
A p an not a knell | Y |
For heroes dying so | M |
No need for sorrow here | Z |
No room for sigh or tear | G |
Save such rich tears as happy eyelids know | M |
See where he rides our Knight | A2 |
Within his eyes the light | A2 |
Of battle and youth s gold about his brow | B2 |
Our Paladin our Soldier of the Cross | S |
Not weighing gain with loss | S |
World loser that won all | C2 |
Obeying duty s call | C2 |
Not his at peril s frown | D2 |
A pulse of quicker beat | H |
Not his to hesitate | N |
And parley hold with Fate | N |
But proudly to fling down | D2 |
His gauntlet at her feet | H |
O soul of loyal valor and white truth | E2 |
Here by this iron gate | N |
Thy serried ranks about thee as of yore | F2 |
Stand thou for evermore | F2 |
In thy undying youth | E2 |
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The tender heart the eagle eye | A |
Oh unto him belong | G2 |
The homages of Song | G2 |
Our praises and the praise | S |
Of coming days | S |
To him belong | G2 |
To him to him the dead that shall not die | A |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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