Before The Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDE FFGHH IJIJKKLLMNNMOO| By the hope within us springing | A |
| Herald of to morrow's strife | B |
| By that sun whose light is bringing | A |
| Chains or freedom death or life | B |
| Oh remember life can be | C |
| No charm for him who lives not free | C |
| Like the day star in the wave | D |
| Sinks a hero in his grave | D |
| Midst the dew fall of a nation's tears | E |
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| Happy is he o'er whose decline | F |
| The smiles of home may soothing shine | F |
| And light him down the steep of years | G |
| But oh how blest they sink to rest | H |
| Who close their eyes on victory's breast | H |
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| O'er his watch fire's fading embers | I |
| Now the foeman's cheek turns white | J |
| When his heart that field remembers | I |
| Where we tamed his tyrant might | J |
| Never let him bind again | K |
| A chain like that we broke from then | K |
| Hark the horn of combat calls | L |
| Ere the golden evening falls | L |
| May we pledge that horn in triumph round | M |
| Many a heart that now beats high | N |
| In slumber cold at night shall lie | N |
| Nor waken even at victory's sound | M |
| But oh how blest that hero's sleep | O |
| O'er whom a wondering world shall weep | O |
Thomas Moore
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