Honor Among Scamps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGDH| We are the smirched Queen Honor is the spotless | A |
| We slept thro' wars where Honor could not sleep | B |
| We were faint hearted Honor was full valiant | C |
| We kept a silence Honor could not keep | B |
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| Yet this late day we make a song to praise her | D |
| We codeless will yet vindicate her code | E |
| She who was mighty walks with us the beggars | F |
| The merchants drive her out upon the road | E |
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| She makes a throne of sod beside our campfire | D |
| We give the maiden queen our rags and tears | G |
| A battered rascal guard have rallied round her | D |
| To keep her safe until the better years | H |
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