Oh! He's Nothing But A Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But he's coming here tonightB
For I saw him pass this morningC
With his uniform so brightB
He was coming in from picketD
Whilst he sung a sweet refrainE
And he kissed his hand at some oneF
Peeping through the window paneE
Ah he rode no dashing chargerG
'With a black and flowing mane 'A
But his bayonet glistened brightlyH
As the sun lit up the plainE
No waving plume or featherG
Flashed its crimson in the lightB
He belonged to the Light InfantryH
And he came to war to fightB
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
His trust is in his swordI
To carve his way to gloryH
Through the servile Yankee hordeI
No pompous pageant heralds himJ
No sycophants attendK
In his belt you see his body guardL
His tried and trusty friendK
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
And a stranger in our landM
His home is in the sunny SouthN
By the blue Gulf's golden strandM
But I wish I knew his peopleO
Some little of his pastP
For father's always telling meH
About our 'social caste'P
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But his eyes are very fineQ
And I sometimes think when passingC
They are piercing into mineQ
Pshaw 'He's nothing but a soldier 'A
Come let me be discreetP
But really for a soldierG
His toilet's very neatP
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But last night he came to teaP
What an interesting soldierG
But then he's rather freeP
'Twas two o'clock this morningC
Before he took his leaveR
He has my ring the fellowS
But what's the use to grieveR
He has been again to see usT
The 'gentleman' in greyU
He calls to see us oftenF
Our house is on his wayU
At times he sadly seeks the shadeP
Of yonder grove of treesV
I watched him once this soldierG
I saw him on his kneesV
One day last week I asked himJ
To tell me of his homeW
He answered pointing to his campX
'Where'er these brave ones roam 'A
I asked him once to tell meP
Of his mother sister dearY
A funeral cortege passed alongZ
Said he 'You have them here 'A
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But this I know right wellA2
He has a heart of softnessT
Where tender virtues dwellA2
For once when we were talkingC
And no one else was nearY
I saw him very plainlyP
Try to hide a startling tearB2
We are speaking of ManassasT
Of that first great bloody dayU
When a handful of our 'bra'e ones'C2
Held the Yankee hosts at bayU
'Twas here he lost his aged sireG
While fighting by his sideP
He sleeps beneath the crimson turfD2
Where roil'd that bloody tideP
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But within that eye so clearY
There lurks no craven spiritP
No timid glance of fearY
For though at pity's pleadingC
It can melt with tender lightP
I've seen it flash like lightningC
Across the brow of nightP
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
Such as pass us every dayU
He calls them 'Ragged Devils 'A
But you know that's just his wayU
But there is one thing very funnyP
One thing I can't explainE
That when this soldier goes awayU
I wish him back againE2
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
And a stranger yet to fameF2
But they tell me in the armyP
That the 'Boys' all know his nameF2
The Yankees too have heard itP
They dread his battle shoutP
They have no wish to meet himJ
This dreaded Southern scoutP
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
Yet you'd call his features goodP
That cut he got at West PointP
While fighting under HoodP
He has a halting in his gaitP
A trifle in the kneeP
He brought it back from SharpsburgC
Where he went with General LeeP
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But his triumphs are not fewG2
He has seen our glorious battle flagC
In all its trials throughG2
At Seven Pines he followed itP
On the heights at Gaines' MillH2
At Williamsburg at West PointP
In the smoke of Malvern HillH2
Oh he's nothing but a soldierG
But then its very queerY
I feel somehow when absentP
I'd rather have him nearY
He's gone to meet the foemanP
To stay his bloody trackC
O Heaven shield the soldierG
O God let him come backC
He is back again this soldierG
With his eyes so deep and clearY
And his voice like falling watersI2
Maketh music to my earJ2
One empty coat sleeve danglesK2
Where once a stout arm grewG2
But this soldier says in huggingC
He has no use for twoG2
'Oh he's nothing but a soldier 'A
And I know that on his formL2
He bears the scars of conflictP
And of many a battle stormL2
But I wouldn't give this soldierG
In his simple humble homeW
For all your perfumed monkeysV
That strut about the townP
He is back again this soldierG
He is sitting by my sideP
Tomorrow ho for TexasT
With his young Virginia brideP
True 'he's nothing but a soldier 'A
But I'm now his loving wifeM2
Pledged through good report or evilO
To dwell with him through lifeM2

Anonymous Americas



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