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The Soldier - Folk Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BABAA CDCD EFEF GAHA CICI JCJC CACA BABAA

RoumanianA
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When winter trees bestrew the pathB
Still to the twig a leaf or twainA
Will cling and weep not Winter's wrathB
But that foreknown forlorner painA
To fall when green leaves come againA
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I watch'd him sleep by the furrowC
The first that fell in the fightD
His grave they would dig to morrowC
The battle called them to nightD
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They bore him aside to the trees thereE
By his undigg'd grave contentF
To lie on his back at ease thereE
And hark how the battle wentF
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The battle went by the villageG
And back through the night were borneA
Far cries of murder and pillageH
With smoke from the standing cornA
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But when they came on the morrowC
They talk'd not over their taskI
As he listen'd there by the furrowC
For the dead mouth could not askI
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How went the battle my brothersJ
But that he will never knowC
For his mouth the red earth smothersJ
As they shoulder their spades and goC
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Yet he cannot sleep thereunderC
But ever must toss and turnA
How went the battle I wonderC
And that he will never learnA
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When winter trees bestrew the pathB
Still to the twig a leaf or twainA
Will cling and weep not Winter's wrathB
But that foreknown forlorner painA
To fall when green leaves come againA

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