Jezreel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGH H IJ J A| On Its Seizure By The English Under Allenby September | A |
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| Did they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day | B |
| When their cavalry smote through the ancient Esdraelon Plain | C |
| And they crossed where the Tishbite stood forth in his enemy's way | B |
| His gaunt mournful Shade as he bade the King haste off amain | C |
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| On war men at this end of time even on Englishmen's eyes | D |
| Who slay with their arms of new might in that long ago place | E |
| Flashed he who drove furiously Ah did the phantom arise | D |
| Of that queen of that proud Tyrian woman who painted her face | E |
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| Faintly marked they the words 'Throw her down ' rise from Night | F |
| eerily | G |
| Spectre spots of the blood of her body on some rotten wall | H |
| And the thin note of pity that came 'A King's daughter is she ' | - |
| As they passed where she trodden was once by the chargers' footfall | H |
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| Could such be the hauntings of men of to day at the cease | I |
| Of pursuit at the dusk hour ere slumber their senses could seal | J |
| Enghosted seers kings one on horseback who asked 'Is it peace ' | - |
| Yea strange things and spectral may men have beheld in Jezreel | J |
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| September | A |
Thomas Hardy
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