Trumpets Of The Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCC DEECCFFGGHHBBIIJK CCD D| Sound sound forever clarions of thought | A |
| When Joshua 'gainst the high walled city fought | A |
| He marched around it with his banner high | B |
| His troops in serried order following nigh | B |
| But not a sword was drawn no shaft outsprang | C |
| Only the trumpets the shrill onset rang | C |
| At the first blast smiled scornfully the king | C |
| And at the second sneered half wondering | C |
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| 'Hop'st thou with noise my stronghold to break down ' | - |
| At the third round the ark of old renown | D |
| Swept forward still the trumpets sounding loud | E |
| And then the troops with ensigns waving proud | E |
| Stepped out upon the old walls children dark | C |
| With horns to mock the notes and hoot the ark | C |
| At the fourth turn braving the Israelites | F |
| Women appeared upon the crenelated heights | F |
| Those battlements embrowned with age and rust | G |
| And hurled upon the Hebrews stones and dust | G |
| And spun and sang when weary of the game | H |
| At the fifth circuit came the blind and lame | H |
| And with wild uproar clamorous and high | B |
| Railed at the clarion ringing to the sky | B |
| At the sixth time upon a tower's tall crest | I |
| So high that there the eagle built his nest | I |
| So hard that on it lightning lit in vain | J |
| Appeared in merriment the king again | K |
| 'These Hebrew Jews musicians are me seems ' | - |
| He scoffed loud laughing 'but they live on dreams ' | - |
| The princes laughed submissive to the king | C |
| Laughed all the courtiers in their glittering ring | C |
| And thence the laughter spread through all the town | D |
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| At the seventh blast the city walls fell down | D |
Victor Marie Hugo
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