Peace To The Slumberers! (catalonian Air.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCA DEFEFD FAAAAFPeace to the slumberers | A |
They lie on the battle plain | B |
With no shroud to cover them | C |
The dew and the summer rain | B |
Are all that weep over them | C |
Peace to the slumberers | A |
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Vain was their bravery | D |
The fallen oak lies where it lay | E |
Across the wintry river | F |
But brave hearts once swept away | E |
Are gone alas forever | F |
Vain was their bravery | D |
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Woe to the conqueror | F |
Our limbs shall lie as cold as theirs | A |
Of whom his sword bereft us | A |
Ere we forget the deep arrears | A |
Of vengeance they have left us | A |
Woe to the conqueror | F |
Thomas Moore
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