Only One Man Killed Today Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEE FGHIEEJJ KBLBMMNN OPQPRSTT| There are tears and wails in the old brown house | A |
| On the hillside steep today | B |
| Though the sunlight gleams on the outer world | C |
| There the clouds drift cold and gray | B |
| 'Only one man killed ' is the tidings read | D |
| 'Our loss was trifling we triumphed ' 'twas said | D |
| And only here in the home on the hill | E |
| Did the words breathe aught but of triumph still | E |
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| They had watched and waited had prayed and wept | F |
| These loving hearts by the cottage hearth | G |
| And the hope was strong that their darling would walk | H |
| Unscathed and safe mid the battle's wrath | I |
| They would have gladly shielded his life from ill | E |
| But their trust was all in their Father's will | E |
| They had felt so sure his love would save | J |
| The pride of their heart from a soldier's grave | J |
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| Now his wisdom has ordered what most they feared | K |
| And their hearts are crushed by the news today | B |
| 'Only one man killed ' so the telegram reads | L |
| But for them life's beauty has passed away | B |
| And all the glory and triumph gained | M |
| Seems a matter small to the woe blood stained | M |
| That was in sorrowful strokes like a tolling bell | N |
| Throbs 'Only one man killed ' as a funeral knell | N |
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| 'Only one man killed ' so we read full oft | O |
| And rejoice that the loss on our side was small | P |
| Forgetting meanwhile that some loving heart | Q |
| Felt all the force of that murderous ball | P |
| 'Only one man was killed ' comes again and again | R |
| One hero more among the martyred lain | S |
| 'Only one man killed ' carries sorrow for life | T |
| To those whose darlings fall in strife | T |
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