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Sentinel Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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When falls the soldier brave	A
Dead at the feet of wrong	B
The poet sings and guards his grave	A
With sentinels of song	B
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Songs march he gives command	C
Keep faithful watch and true	D
The living and dead of the conquered land	C
Have now no guards save you	D
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Gray ballads mark ye well	E
Thrice holy is your trust	F
Go halt by the fields where warriors fell	E
Rest arms and guard their dust	F
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List songs your watch is long	B
The soldiers' guard was brief	G
Whilst right is right and wrong is wrong	B
Ye may not seek relief	G
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Go wearing the gray of grief	G
Go watch o'er the dead in gray	H
Go guard the private and guard the chief	G
And sentinel their clay	H
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And the songs in stately rhyme	I
And with softly sounding tread	J
Go forth to watch for a time a time	I
Where sleep the Deathless Dead	J
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And the songs like funeral dirge	K
In music soft and low	L
Sing round the graves whilst hot tears surge	K
From hearts that are homes of woe	L
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What tho' no sculptured shaft	M
Immortalize each brave	A
What tho' no monument epitaphed	M
Be built above each grave	A
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When marble wears away	H
And monuments are dust	M
The songs that guard our soldiers' clay	H
Will still fulfil their trust	M
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With lifted head and stately tread	M
Like stars that guard the skies	N
Go watch each bed where rest the dead	M
Brave songs with sleepless eyes	N
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When falls the cause of Right	M
The poet grasps his pen	O
And in gleaming letters of living light	M
Transmits the truth to men	O
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Go songs he says who sings	P
Go tell the world this tale	Q
Bear it afar on your tireless wings	P
The Right will yet prevail	Q
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Songs sound like the thunder's breath	R
Boom o'er the world and say	H
Brave men may die Right has no death	R
Truth never shall pass away	H
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Go sing thro' a nation's sighs	N
Go sob thro' a people's tears	S
Sweep the horizons of all the skies	N
And throb through a thousand years	T
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And the songs with brave sad face	U
Go proudly down their way	H
Wailing the loss of a conquered race	U
And waiting an Easter day	H
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Away away like the birds	V
They soar in their flight sublime	I
And the waving wings of the poet's words	V
Flash down to the end of time	I
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When the flag of justice fails	W
Ere its folds have yet been furled	H
The poet waves its folds in wails	W
That flutter o'er the world	H
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Songs march and in rank by rank	X
The low wild verses go	L
To watch the graves where the grass is dank	X
And the martyrs sleep below	L
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Songs halt where there is no name	Y
Songs stay where there is no stone	Z
And wait till you hear the feet of Fame	Y
Coming to where ye moan	Z
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And the songs with lips that mourn	A2
And with hearts that break in twain	B2
At the beck of the bard a hope forlorn	A2
Watch the plain where sleep the slain	B2
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When the warrior's sword is lowered	H
Ere its stainless sheen grows dim	C2
The bard flings forth its dying gleam	D2
On the wings of a deathless hymn	C2
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Songs fly far o'er the world	H
And adown to the end of time	I
Let the sword still flash tho' its flag be furled	H
Thro' the sheen of the poet's rhyme	I
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Songs fly as the eagles fly	E2
The bard unbars the cage	F2
Go soar away and afar and high	E2
Wave your wings o'er every age	F2
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Shriek shrilly o'er each day	H
As futureward ye fly	E2
That the men were right who wore the gray	H
And Right can never die	E2
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And the songs with waving wing	G2
Fly far float far away	H
From the ages' crest o'er the world they fling	G2
The shade of the stainless gray	H
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Might sing your triumph songs	H2
Each song but sounds a shame	Y
Go down the world in loud voiced throngs	H2
To win from the future fame	Y
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Our ballads born of tears	S
Will track you on your way	H
And win the hearts of the future years	T
For the men who wore the gray	H
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And so say what you will	I2
In the heart of God's own laws	J2
I have a faith and my heart believes still	I2
In the triumph of our cause	K2
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Such hope may all be vain	B2
And futile be such trust	H
But the weary eyes that weep the slain	B2
And watch above such dust	H
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They cannot help but lift	H
Their visions to the skies	N
They watch the clouds but wait the rift	H
Through which their hope shall rise	N
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The victor wields the sword	H
Its blade may broken be	L2
By a thought that sleeps in a deathless word	H
To wake in the years to be	L2
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We wait a grand voiced bard	H
Who when he sings will send	H
Immortal songs' Imperial Guard	H
The Lost Cause to defend	H
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He has not come he will	I2
But when he chants his song	B
Will stir the world to its depths and thrill	I2
The earth with its tale of wrong	B
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The fallen cause still waits	M2
Its bard has not come yet	H
His sun through one of to morrow's gates	M2
Shall shine but never set	H
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But when he comes he'll sweep	N2
A harp with tears all stringed	H
And the very notes he strikes will weep	N2
As they come from his hand woe winged	H
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Ah grand shall be his strain	B2
And his songs shall fill all climes	O2
And the rebels shall rise and march again	O
Down the lines of his glorious rhymes	O2
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And through his verse shall gleam	D2
The swords that flashed in vain	B2
And the men who wore the gray shall seem	D2
To be marshaling again	O
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But hush between his words	V
Peer faces sad and pale	Q
And you hear the sound of broken chords	P2
Beat through the poet's wail	Q
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Through his verse the orphans cry	E2
The terrible undertone	Z
And the father's curse and the mother's sigh	E2
And the desolate young wife's moan	Z
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But harps are in every land	H
That await a voice that sings	P
And a master hand but the humblest hand	H
May gently touch its strings	P
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I sing with a voice too low	L
To be heard beyond to day	H
In minor keys of my people's woe	L
But my songs pass away	H
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To morrow hears them not	H
To morrow belongs to Fame	Y
My songs like the birds' will be forgot	H
And forgotten shall be my name	Y
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And yet who knows Betimes	P
The grandest songs depart	H
While the gentle humble and low toned rhymes	P
Will echo from heart to heart	H
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But oh if in song or speech	Q2
In major or minor key	L2
My voice could over the ages reach	Q2
I would whisper the name of Lee	L2
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In the night of our defeat	H
Star after star had gone	R2
But the way was bright to our soldiers' feet	H
Where the star of Lee led on	S2
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But sudden there came a cloud	H
Out rung a nation's knell	E
Our cause was wrapped in its winding shroud	H
All fell when the great Lee fell	E
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From his men with scarce a word	H
Silence when great hearts part	H
But we know he sheathed his stainless sword	H
In the wound of a broken heart	H
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He fled from Fame but Fame	Y
Sought him in his retreat	H
Demanding for the world one name	Y
Made deathless by defeat	H
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Nay Fame success is best	H
All lost and nothing won	T2
North keep the clouds that flush the West	H
We have the sinking sun	T2
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All lost but by the graves	P
Where martyred heroes rest	H
He wins the most who honor saves	P
Success is not the test	H
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All lost a nation weeps	P
By all the tears that fall	U2
He loses naught who conscience keeps	P
Lee's honor saves us all	U2
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All lost but e'en defeat	H
Hath triumphs of her own	Z
Wrong's paean hath no note so sweet	H
As trampled Right's proud moan	Z
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The world shall yet decide	H
In truth's clear far off light	H
That the soldiers who wore the gray and died	H
With Lee were in the right	H
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And men by time made wise	P
Shall in the future see	L2
No name hath risen or ever shall rise	P
Like the name of Robert Lee	L2
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Ah me my words are weak	V2
This task surpasses me	L2
Dead soldiers rise from your graves and speak	V2
And tell how you loved Lee	L2
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The banner you bore is furled	H
And the gray is faded too	H
But in all the colors that deck the world	H
Your gray blends not with blue	H
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The colors are far apart	H
Graves sever them in twain	B2
The Northern heart and the Southern heart	H
May beat in peace again	O
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But still till time's last day	H
Whatever lips may plight	H
The blue is blue but the gray is gray	H
Wrong never accords with Right	H
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Go Glory and forever guard	H
Our chieftain's hallowed dust	H
And Honor keep eternal ward	H
And Fame be this thy trust	H
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Go with your bright emblazoned scroll	W2
And tell the years to be	L2
The first of names that flash your roll	W2
Is ours great Robert Lee	L2
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Lee wore the gray since then	O
'Tis Right's and Honor's hue	H
He honored it that man of men	O
And wrapped it round the true	H
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Dead but his spirit breathes	P
Dead but his heart is ours	P
Dead but his sunny and sad land wreathes	P
His crown with tears for flowers	P
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A statue for his tomb	X2
Mould it of marble white	H
For Wrong a spectre of death and doom	X2
An angel of hope for Right	H
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But Lee has a thousand graves	P
In a thousand hearts I ween	O
And teardrops fall from our eyes in waves	P
That will keep his memory green	O
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Ah Muse you dare not claim	Y
A nobler man than he	L2
Nor nobler man hath less of blame	Y
Nor blameless man hath purer name	Y
Nor purer name hath grander fame	Y
Nor fame another Lee	L2