Cry Of The Homeless - After The Prussian Invasion Of Belgium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB BFAFGFE AHDHIHEJ K| Instigator of the ruin | A |
| Whichsoever thou mayst be | B |
| Of the masterful of Europe | C |
| That contrived our misery | B |
| Hear the wormwood worded greeting | D |
| From each city shore and lea | B |
| Of thy victims | E |
| Conqueror all hail to thee | B |
| - | |
| Yea 'All hail ' we grimly shout thee | B |
| That wast author fount and head | F |
| Of these wounds whoever proven | A |
| When our times are throughly read | F |
| 'May thy loved be slighted blighted | G |
| And forsaken ' be it said | F |
| By thy victims | E |
| 'And thy children beg their bread ' | - |
| - | |
| Nay a richer malediction | A |
| Rather let this thing befall | H |
| In time's hurling and unfurling | D |
| On the night when comes thy call | H |
| That compassion dew thy pillow | I |
| And bedrench thy senses all | H |
| For thy victims | E |
| Till death dark thee with his pall | J |
| - | |
| August | K |
Thomas Hardy
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