Spartan Mothers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEB FGFGHHH IJKJLLHH MHMHNNH| One more embrace Then o'er the main | A |
| And nobly play the soldier's part '' | B |
| Thus sounds amid the martial strain | A |
| The Spartan Mother's patriot heart | C |
| She hides her woe | D |
| She bids him go | D |
| And tread the path his Fathers trod | E |
| Who dies for England dies for God '' | B |
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| In the husht night she wakes she weeps | F |
| And listens for the far off fray | G |
| He scours the gorge he scales the steeps | F |
| Scatters the Foe away away | G |
| But feigned the flight | H |
| Smite again smite | H |
| How fleet their steeds how nimbly shod | H |
| She kneels she prays Protect him God '' | - |
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| Weep tender souls The sob the tear | I |
| The lonely prayer the stifled wail | J |
| These brace the will these nerve the spear | K |
| And speed him over veldt and vale | J |
| What is to him | L |
| Or life or limb | L |
| Who rends the chain and breaks the rod | H |
| Who strikes for Freedom strikes for God | H |
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| Should Heaven decree that he once more | M |
| Unscathed return to home and rest | H |
| She will be standing at the door | M |
| To fold him to her trembling breast | H |
| Or should he fall | N |
| By ridge or wall | N |
| And lie 'neath some green southern sod | H |
| Who dies for England sleeps with God '' | - |
Alfred Austin
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