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The Soldier's Christmas Eve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDDEFFE EGGGHHHIBIBJJ IGIGKLLKMNN COPPQQQRRSRSTT

In a southern forest gloomy and oldA
So lately the scene of a terrible fightB
A soldier alone in the dark and coldA
Is keeping the watch tonightB
As he paces his round he sees the lightB
Of his comrades' campfire gleaming farC
Through the dusky wood and one bright starC
Looks down with a twinkle of light and loveD
From the frosty sky that bends aboveD
Large clear and bright in the far off skiesE
It twinkles and glimmers there aloneF
Like the blessed Bethlehem star that shoneF
On the sheperd's wondering eyesE
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As he watches it slowly sweetly riseE
His heart is touched by its gentle rayG
And away awayG
His thoughts on the wings of fancy strayG
He forgets the night with its frosty airH
And cheerless blast that every whereH
Moans loud through the branches black and bareH
He is thinking now of the little bandI
In his boyhood home whose faces brightB
Are beaming with happiness as they standI
Round the Christmas tree tonightB
And he seems to join with the happy throngJ
In each innocent game and mirthful songJ
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Ah vision as bright as fairy landI
Like a broken dream it will not stayG
He raises his weather beaten handI
And dashes a tear awayG
And he feels anew all his terrible lotK
Exposed to the pestilence snow and rainL
Enduring fatigue and fever and painL
And standing each day to be shotK
And all for whatM
For what does he give his strength and lifeN
in the deadly strifeN
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To defend the home where the loved ones areC
From the fire and sword and the ravage of warO
To defend his home and the land of his birthP
To pride of the earthP
And solemnly swornQ
To avenge her flag by the traitors tornQ
Of its ancient glory shamefully shornQ
Such thoughts through the soldiers mind have passedR
He feels no longer the chilling blastR
The driving sleet or the frozen groundS
For his blood is beating fiercly and fastR
As he quickens his roundS
He pines no longer for home and restT
A patriot's spirit has warmed his breastT

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