The Surprise Of Cremona. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD E FFFFFFGH E CCGGIIJJ K LLFFCCMM K NNOOPPFF K QQGGMMRR K FFSSCCTT K UUTTIIKK| From Milan to Cremona Duke Villeroy rode | A |
| And soft are the beds in his princely abode | A |
| In billet and barrack the garrison sleep | B |
| And loose is the watch which the sentinels keep | B |
| 'Tis the eve of St David and bitter the breeze | C |
| Of that mid winter night on the flat Cremonese | C |
| A fig for precaution Prince Eugene sits down | D |
| In winter cantonments round Mantua town | D |
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| II | E |
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| Yet through Ustiano and out on the plain | F |
| Horse foot and dragoons are defiling amain | F |
| That flash said Prince Eugene Count Merci push on | F |
| Like a rock from a precipice Merci is gone | F |
| Proud mutters the Prince That is Cassioli's sign | F |
| Ere the dawn of the morning Cremona'll be mine | F |
| For Merci will open the gate of the Po | G |
| But scant is the mercy Prince Vaudemont will shew | H |
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| III | E |
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| Through gate street and square with his keen cavaliers | C |
| A flood through a gulley Count Merci careers | C |
| They ride without getting or giving a blow | G |
| Nor halt till they gaze on the gate of the Po | G |
| Surrender the gate but a volley replied | I |
| For a handful of Irish are posted inside | I |
| By my faith Charles Vaudemont will come rather late | J |
| If he stay till Count Merci shall open that gate | J |
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| IV | K |
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| But in through St Margaret's the Austrians pour | L |
| And billet and barrack are ruddy with gore | L |
| Unarmed and naked the soldiers are slain | F |
| There's an enemy's gauntlet on Villeroy's rein | F |
| A thousand pistoles and a regiment of horse | C |
| Release me MacDonnell they hold on their course | C |
| Count Merci has seized upon cannon and wall | M |
| Prince Eugene's headquarters are in the Town hall | M |
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| V | K |
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| Here and there through the city some readier band | N |
| For honour and safety undauntedly stand | N |
| At the head of the regiments of Dillon and Burke | O |
| Is Major O'Mahony fierce as a Turk | O |
| His sabre is flashing the major is dress'd | P |
| But muskets and shirts are the clothes of the rest | P |
| Yet they rush to the ramparts the clocks have tolled ten | F |
| And Count Merci retreats with the half of his men | F |
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| VI | K |
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| In on them said Friedberg and Dillon is broke | Q |
| Like forest flowers crushed by the fall of the oak | Q |
| Through the naked battalions the cuirassiers go | G |
| But the man not the dress makes the soldier I trow | G |
| Upon them with grapple with bay'net and ball | M |
| Like wolves upon gaze hounds the Irishmen fall | M |
| Black Friedberg is slain by O'Mahony's steel | R |
| And back from the bullets the cuirassiers reel | R |
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| VII | K |
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| Oh hear you their shout in your quarters Eugene | F |
| In vain on Prince Vaudemont for succour you lean | F |
| The bridge has been broken and mark how pell mell | S |
| Come riderless horses and volley and yell | S |
| He's a veteran soldier he clenches his hands | C |
| He springs on his horse disengages his bands | C |
| He rallies he urges till hopeless of aid | T |
| He is chased through the gates by the IRISH BRIGADE | T |
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| VIII | K |
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| News news in Vienna King Leopold's sad | U |
| News news in St James's King William is mad | U |
| News news in Versailles Let the Irish Brigade | T |
| Be loyally honoured and royally paid | T |
| News news in old Ireland high rises her pride | I |
| And high sounds her wail for her children who died | I |
| And deep is her prayer God send I may see | K |
| MacDonnell and Mahony fighting for me | K |
Thomas Osborne Davis
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