To E.s. Salomon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GCCG HIIH JKKL CMMC NCCN OPPO QRRQ STTS AGGA UCCV CAAC WXXW EYYE EZZWhat Salomon such words from you | A |
Who call yourself a soldier Well | B |
The Southern brother where he fell | B |
Slept all your base oration through | A |
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Alike to him he cannot know | C |
Your praise or blame as little harm | D |
Your tongue can do him as your arm | D |
A quarter century ago | C |
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The brave respect the brave The brave | E |
Respect the dead but you you draw | F |
That ancient blade the ass's jaw | F |
And shake it o'er a hero's grave | E |
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Are you not he who makes to day | G |
A merchandise of old reknown | C |
Which he persuades this easy town | C |
He won in battle far away | G |
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Nay those the fallen who revile | H |
Have ne'er before the living stood | I |
And stoutly made their battle good | I |
And greeted danger with a smile | H |
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What if the dead whom still you hate | J |
Were wrong Are you so surely right | K |
We know the issues of the fight | K |
The sword is but an advocate | L |
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Men live and die and other men | C |
Arise with knowledges diverse | M |
What seemed a blessing seems a curse | M |
And Now is still at odds with Then | C |
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The years go on the old comes back | N |
To mock the new beneath the sun | C |
Is nothing new ideas run | C |
Recurrent in an endless track | N |
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What most we censure men as wise | O |
Have reverently practiced nor | P |
Will future wisdom fail to war | P |
On principles we dearly prize | O |
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We do not know we can but deem | Q |
And he is loyalest and best | R |
Who takes the light full on his breast | R |
And follows it throughout the dream | Q |
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The broken light the shadows wide | S |
Behold the battle field displayed | T |
God save the vanquished from the blade | T |
The victor from the victor's pride | S |
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If Salomon the blessed dew | A |
That falls upon the Blue and Gray | G |
Is powerless to wash away | G |
The sin of differing from you | A |
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Remember how the flood of years | U |
Has rolled across the erring slain | C |
Remember too the cleansing rain | C |
Of widows' and of orphans' tears | V |
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The dead are dead let that atone | C |
And though with equal hand we strew | A |
The blooms on saint and sinner too | A |
Yet God will know to choose his own | C |
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The wretch whate'er his life and lot | W |
Who does not love the harmless dead | X |
With all his heart and all his head | X |
May God forgive him I shall not | W |
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When Salomon you come to quaff | E |
The Darker Cup with meeker face | Y |
I loving you at last shall trace | Y |
Upon your tomb this epitaph | E |
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'Draw near ye generous and brave | E |
Kneel round this monument and weep | Z |
For one who tried in vain to keep | Z |
A flower from a soldier's grave ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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