Send Them Home Tenderly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGEBAHEI AJFJFBKB ABEBLBMB| Send them home tenderly | A |
| The sleepers at rest | B |
| With hands meekly folded | C |
| On each silent breast | B |
| Let them come back to slumber | D |
| Beneath northern skies | E |
| Where true hearts may weep o er them | F |
| And prayer incense rise | E |
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| Send them home tenderly | A |
| The noble and true | G |
| Scarce gone from their hearthstones | E |
| Scarce whispered 'Adieu' | B |
| Gone forth for their country | A |
| It s rights to sustain | H |
| But all bleeding and lifeless | E |
| Returning again | I |
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| Send them home tenderly | A |
| Our martyr'd and brave | J |
| With the stripes and stars round them | F |
| All robed for the grave | J |
| Bereaved mothers shall clasp them | F |
| In pride to their breast | B |
| And the good of our nation | K |
| Shall weep where they rest | B |
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| Send them home tenderly | A |
| Each wound gaping wide | B |
| Shall send myriads of voices | E |
| From the dark purple tide | B |
| And strong hands shall be grasping | L |
| The bright unsheath'd sword | B |
| With fresh fervor to battle | M |
| For right and the Lord | B |
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