Written On The Death Of General Sir Ralph Abercrombie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJI| Mute Memory stands at Valour's awful shrine | A |
| In tears Britannia mourns her hero dead | B |
| A world's regret brave Abercrombie's thine | A |
| For nature sorrow'd as thy spirit fled | B |
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| For not the tear that matchless courage claims | C |
| To honest zeal and soft compassion due | D |
| Alone is thine o'er thy adored remains | E |
| Each virtue weeps for all once lived in you | D |
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| Yes on thy deeds exulting I could dwell | F |
| To speak the merits of thy honour'd name | G |
| But ah what need my humble muse to tell | F |
| When Rapture's self has echoed forth thy fame | G |
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| Yet still thy name its energies shall deal | H |
| When wild storms gather round thy country's sun | I |
| Her glowing youth shall grasp the gleamy steel | H |
| Rank'd round the glorious wreaths which thou hast | J |
| won | I |
Thomas Gent
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