Written On The Death Of General Sir Ralph Abercrombie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHJIMute 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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