The Southern Mother's Charge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECFC GHCH IJKL MNON PKCK QKRK BST| You go my son to the battle field | A |
| To repel the invading foe | B |
| 'Mid its fiercest conflicts never yield | A |
| Till death shall lay you low | B |
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| Our God who smiles upon the Right | C |
| And frowns upon the Wrong | D |
| Will nerve you for our holy fight | C |
| And make your courage strong | D |
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| Our cause is just For it we pray | E |
| At morning noon and night | C |
| Upon our banners we inscribe | F |
| God Liberty and Right | C |
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| I love you as my life | G |
| My dear beloved son | H |
| Your country calls go forth and fight | C |
| Till Freedom's cause is won | H |
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| It may be that you fall in death | I |
| Contending for your home | J |
| Yet your aged mother will not be | K |
| Forsaken though alone | L |
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| A thousand generous hearts there are | M |
| Throughout this sunny land | N |
| Whose ample fortunes will be spent | O |
| With an unsparing hand | N |
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| Now go my son a mother's prayers | P |
| Will ever follow thee | K |
| And in the thickest of the fight | C |
| Strike home for liberty | K |
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| On every hill in every glen | Q |
| We'll fight till we are free | K |
| We'll fight till every limpid brook | R |
| Runs crimson to the sea | K |
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| No truce we know till every foe | B |
| Shall leave our hallowed sod | S |
| And we regain that Heaven born boon | T |
| 'Freedom to worship God ' | - |
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