The Aged Stranger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ABDB EBFB GBHB IJFB HBKB GBEB LBMB| I was with Grant the stranger said | A |
| Said the farmer Say no more | B |
| But rest thee here at my cottage porch | C |
| For thy feet are weary and sore | B |
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| I was with Grant the stranger said | A |
| Said the farmer Nay no more | B |
| I prithee sit at my frugal board | D |
| And eat of my humble store | B |
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| How fares my boy my soldier boy | E |
| Of the old Ninth Army Corps | B |
| I warrant he bore him gallantly | F |
| In the smoke and the battle's roar | B |
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| I know him not said the aged man | G |
| And as I remarked before | B |
| I was with Grant Nay nay I know | H |
| Said the farmer say no more | B |
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| He fell in battle I see alas | I |
| Thou'dst smooth these tidings o'er | J |
| Nay speak the truth whatever it be | F |
| Though it rend my bosom's core | B |
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| How fell he With his face to the foe | H |
| Upholding the flag he bore | B |
| Oh say not that my boy disgraced | K |
| The uniform that he wore | B |
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| I cannot tell said the aged man | G |
| And should have remarked before | B |
| That I was with Grant in Illinois | E |
| Some three years before the war | B |
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| Then the farmer spake him never a word | L |
| But beat with his fist full sore | B |
| That aged man who had worked for Grant | M |
| Some three years before the war | B |
Bret Harte (francis)
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