Soldier From The Wars Returning, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AAAA EFEG| Soldier from the wars returning | A |
| Spoiler of the taken town | B |
| Here is ease that asks not earning | A |
| Turn you in and sit you down | B |
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| Peace is come and wars are over | C |
| Welcome you and welcome all | D |
| While the charger crops the clover | C |
| And his bridle hangs in stall | D |
| - | |
| Now no more of winters biting | A |
| Filth in trench from fall to spring | A |
| Summers full of sweat and fighting | A |
| For the Kesar or the King | A |
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| Rest you charger rust you bridle | E |
| Kings and kesars keep your pay | F |
| Soldier sit you down and idle | E |
| At the inn of night for aye | G |
Alfred Edward Housman
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