Keep Innocency Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC BDBED FGHGG GIGJJ KLKLL GBGGB| Like an old battle youth is wild | A |
| With bugle and spear and counter cry | B |
| Fanfare and drummery yet a child | A |
| Dreaming of that sweet chivalry | C |
| The piercing terror cannot see | C |
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| He with a mild and serious eye | B |
| Along the azure of the years | D |
| Sees the sweet pomp sweep hurtling by | B |
| But he sees not death's blood and tears | E |
| Sees not the plunging of the spears | D |
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| And all the strident horror of | F |
| Horse and rider in red defeat | G |
| Is only music fine enough | H |
| To lull him into slumber sweet | G |
| In fields where ewe and lambkin bleat | G |
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| O if with such simplicity | G |
| Himself take arms and suffer war | I |
| With beams his targe shall gilded be | G |
| Though in the thickening gloom be far | J |
| The steadfast light of any star | J |
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| Though hoarse War's eagle on him perch | K |
| Quickened with guilty lightnings there | L |
| It shall in vain for terror search | K |
| Where a child's eyes beneath bloody hair | L |
| Gaze purely through the dingy air | L |
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| And when the wheeling rout is spent | G |
| Though in the heaps of slain he lie | B |
| Or lonely in his last content | G |
| Quenchless shall burn in secrecy | G |
| The flame Death knows his victors by | B |
Walter De La Mare
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