The Dying Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE FGHGIJAJ KLMLNFOF APQRSBFB TUAUVGAG| Yes raise me on your arm Dick Dale | A |
| My comrade old and true | B |
| And let me of the glad earth take | C |
| One last and lingering view | B |
| When yet a few brief moments more | D |
| Of this flittering hour have fled | E |
| You ll shed an old friend's tear Dick Dale | A |
| Above your comrade's head | E |
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| We fought together side by side | F |
| In many a bloody fray | G |
| From Malvern Hill's dark hour of strife | H |
| To fierce Antietam's day | G |
| And when again the 'long roll' calls | I |
| For battle to prepare | J |
| You will not fail the flag Dick Dale | A |
| But I shall not be there | J |
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| You will not soon forget me Dick | K |
| I know it by that sigh | L |
| I know it by those tears that shine | M |
| In your half averted eye | L |
| But my dear old comrade's heart will swell | N |
| I know with honest pride | F |
| When he thinks that for the grand old flag | O |
| His old companion died | F |
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| Cut off this light brown lock Dick Dale | A |
| For the girl that waits at home | P |
| Yes Hoping waits her soldier love | Q |
| Who never more can come | R |
| 'Twill soothe perhaps her bleeding heart | S |
| To know that watched by you | B |
| The boy she loved at least has died | F |
| With one who loved him too | B |
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| You'll visit all the quaint old nooks | T |
| We sought when we were boys | U |
| And thoughts of me will come Dick Dale | A |
| With thoughts of childhood's joys | U |
| And when you reach the old playground | V |
| Where once you used to play | G |
| You ll not forget your friend Dick Dale | A |
| In his lone grave far away | G |
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