Liege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDE FFFGHHHG IIIJKKKJ| Betwixt the Foe and France was she | A |
| France the immortal France the free | A |
| The Foe like one vast living sea | A |
| Drew nigh | B |
| He dreamed that none his tide would stay | C |
| But when he bade her to make way | C |
| She through her cannon answered 'Nay | D |
| Not I ' | E |
| - | |
| No tremor and no fear she showed | F |
| She held the pass she barred the road | F |
| While Death's unsleeping feet bestrode | F |
| The ground | G |
| So long as deeds of noblest worth | H |
| Are sung with joy and tears and mirth | H |
| Her glory shall to the ends of the Earth | H |
| Resound | G |
| - | |
| Watched by a world that yearned to aid | I |
| Lonely she stood but undismayed | I |
| Resplendent was the part she played | I |
| And pure | J |
| Praised be her heroes proud her sons | K |
| She threw her soul into the guns | K |
| Her name shall with the loveliest ones | K |
| Endure | J |
William Watson
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