Sir Walter Scott's, Battle of Bannockburn for instance.
' The rebels, Argentine, repent !
..For pardon they have kneel'd.' ---
' Aye ! --- but they bend to other powers,
And other pardon due than ours !
Note the:
- placement of the exclamation points separated by a space
- the separation of the single quotation marks at the outset but not at the end
- the em dashes, or whatever they're called
- the double space, or indentation, before, "For pardon"
Am curious in general about all poems of yore in anthologies.
I really love getting the originals when it comes to most everything.
' The rebels, Argentine, repent !
..For pardon they have kneel'd.' ---
' Aye ! --- but they bend to other powers,
And other pardon due than ours !
Note the:
- placement of the exclamation points separated by a space
- the separation of the single quotation marks at the outset but not at the end
- the em dashes, or whatever they're called
- the double space, or indentation, before, "For pardon"
Am curious in general about all poems of yore in anthologies.
I really love getting the originals when it comes to most everything.
Last edited: