Hospital Duties Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADAD EFEFEGEH IJIJKLKL KMKMFEFE ENEOEPEP DQDQKRKS TUTUVWXW UYUYZLA2L| Fold away all your bright tinted dresses | A |
| Turn the key on your jewels today | B |
| And the wealth of your tendril like tresses | C |
| Braid back in a serious way | B |
| No more delicate gloves no more laces | A |
| No more trifling in boudoir or bower | D |
| But come with your souls in your faces | A |
| To meet the stern wants of the hour | D |
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| Look around By the torchlight unsteady | E |
| The dead and the dying seem one | F |
| What Trembling and paling already | E |
| Before your dear mission's begun | F |
| These wounds are more precious than ghastly | E |
| Time presses her lips to each scar | G |
| While she chants of that glory which vastly | E |
| Transcends all the horrors of war | H |
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| Pause here by this bedside How mellow | I |
| The light showers down on that brow | J |
| Such a brave brawny visgage poor fellow | I |
| Some homestead is missing him now | J |
| Some wife shades her eyes in the clearing | K |
| Some mother sits moaning distressed | L |
| While the loved one lies faint but unfearing | K |
| With the enemy's ball in his breast | L |
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| Here's another a lad a mere stripling | K |
| Picked up in the field almost dead | M |
| With the blood through his sunny hair rippling | K |
| From the horrible gash in his head | M |
| They say he was first in the action | F |
| Gay hearted quick headed and witty | E |
| He fought till he dropped with exhaustion | F |
| At the gates of our fair Southern city | E |
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| Fought and fell 'neath the guns of that city | E |
| With a spirit transcending his years | N |
| Lift him up in your large hearted pity | E |
| And wet his pale lips with your tears | O |
| Touch him gently most sacred the duty | E |
| Of dressing that poor shattered hand | P |
| God spare him to rise in his beauty | E |
| And battle once more for his land | P |
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| Pass on it is useless to linger | D |
| While others are calling your care | Q |
| There is need for your delicate finger | D |
| For your womanly sympathy there | Q |
| There are sick ones athirst for caressing | K |
| There are dying ones raving at home | R |
| There are wounds to be bound with a blessing | K |
| And shrouds to make ready for some | S |
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| They have gathered about you the harvest | T |
| Of death in its ghastliest view | U |
| The nearest as well as the furthest | T |
| Is there with the traitor and true | U |
| And crowned with your beautiful patience | V |
| Made sunny with love at the heart | W |
| You must balsam the wounds of the nations | X |
| Nor falter nor shrink from your part | W |
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| And the lips of the mother will bless you | U |
| And angels sweet visaged and pale | Y |
| And the little ones run to caress you | U |
| And the wives and the sisters cry hail | Y |
| But e'en if you drop down unheeded | Z |
| What matter God's ways are the best | L |
| You have poured out your life where 'twas needed | A2 |
| And He will take care of the rest | L |
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