The Dying Warrior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD AEAFF GHFHH CICII| A wounded Chieftain lying | A |
| By the Danube's leafy side | B |
| Thus faintly said in dying | A |
| Oh bear thou foaming tide | B |
| This gift to my lady bride | B |
| - | |
| 'Twas then in life's last quiver | C |
| He flung the scarf he wore | D |
| Into the foaming river | C |
| Which ah too quickly bore | D |
| That pledge of one no more | D |
| - | |
| With fond impatience burning | A |
| The Chieftain's lady stood | E |
| To watch her love returning | A |
| In triumph down the flood | F |
| From that day's field of blood | F |
| - | |
| But field alas ill fated | G |
| The lady saw instead | H |
| Of the bark whose speed she waited | F |
| Her hero's scarf all red | H |
| With the drops his heart had shed | H |
| - | |
| One shriek and all was over | C |
| Her life pulse ceased to beat | I |
| The gloomy waves now cover | C |
| That bridal flower so sweet | I |
| And the scarf is her winding sheet | I |
Thomas Moore
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