The Beleaguered City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JHJH KEKE LMNM DODO FGFG HPHP JQJQ KEKE| I have read in some old marvellous tale | A |
| Some legend strange and vague | B |
| That a midnight host of spectres pale | A |
| Beleaguered the walls of Prague | C |
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| Beside the Moldau's rushing stream | D |
| With the wan moon overhead | E |
| There stood as in an awful dream | D |
| The army of the dead | E |
| - | |
| White as a sea fog landward bound | F |
| The spectral camp was seen | G |
| And with a sorrowful deep sound | F |
| The river flowed between | G |
| - | |
| No other voice nor sound was there | H |
| No drum nor sentry's pace | I |
| The mist like banners clasped the air | H |
| As clouds with clouds embrace | I |
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| But when the old cathedral bell | J |
| Proclaimed the morning prayer | H |
| The white pavilions rose and fell | J |
| On the alarmed air | H |
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| Down the broad valley fast and far | K |
| The troubled army fled | E |
| Up rose the glorious morning star | K |
| The ghastly host was dead | E |
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| I have read in the marvellous heart of man | L |
| That strange and mystic scroll | M |
| That an army of phantoms vast and wan | N |
| Beleaguer the human soul | M |
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| Encamped beside Life's rushing stream | D |
| In Fancy's misty light | O |
| Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam | D |
| Portentous through the night | O |
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| Upon its midnight battle ground | F |
| The spectral camp is seen | G |
| And with a sorrowful deep sound | F |
| Flows the River of Life between | G |
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| No other voice nor sound is there | H |
| In the army of the grave | P |
| No other challenge breaks the air | H |
| But the rushing of Life's wave | P |
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| And when the solemn and deep church bell | J |
| Entreats the soul to pray | Q |
| The midnight phantoms feel the spell | J |
| The shadows sweep away | Q |
| - | |
| Down the broad Vale of Tears afar | K |
| The spectral camp is fled | E |
| Faith shineth as a morning star | K |
| Our ghastly fears are dead | E |
William Henry Giles Kingston
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