The War Song Of Dinas Vawr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBC DEDEFGFG AFAFHIHI EJBBKBKB LGLGCFMF| The mountain sheep are sweeter | A |
| But the valley sheep are fatter | A |
| We therefore deemed it meeter | A |
| To carry off the latter | A |
| We made an expedition | B |
| We met a host and quelled it | C |
| We forced a strong position | B |
| And killed the men who held it | C |
| - | |
| On Dyfed's richest valley | D |
| Where herds of kine were browsing | E |
| We made a mighty sally | D |
| To furnish our carousing | E |
| Fierce warriors rushed to meet us | F |
| We met them and o'erthrew them | G |
| They struggled hard to beat us | F |
| But we conquered them and slew them | G |
| - | |
| As we drove our prize at leisure | A |
| The king marched forth to catch us | F |
| His rage surpassed all measure | A |
| But his people could not match us | F |
| He fled to his hall pillars | H |
| And ere our force we led off | I |
| Some sacked his house and cellars | H |
| While others cut his head off | I |
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| We there in strife bewild'ring | E |
| Spilt blood enough to swim in | J |
| We orphaned many children | B |
| And widowed many women | B |
| The eagles and the ravens | K |
| We glutted with our foemen | B |
| The heroes and the cravens | K |
| The spearmen and the bowmen | B |
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| We brought away from battle | L |
| And much their land bemoaned them | G |
| Two thousand head of cattle | L |
| And the head of him who owned them | G |
| Ednyfed king of Dyfed | C |
| His head was borne before us | F |
| His wine and beasts supplied our feasts | M |
| And his overthrow our chorus | F |
Thomas Love Peacock
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