The Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQP BERE LPSP TUVU WOXO RYZY| Who comes The sentry's warning cry | A |
| Rings sharply on the evening air | B |
| Who comes The challenge no reply | A |
| Yet something motions there | B |
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| A woman by those graceful folds | C |
| A soldier by that martial tread | D |
| Advance three paces Halt until | E |
| Thy name and rank be said | D |
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| My name Her name in ancient song | F |
| Who fearless from Olympus came | G |
| Look on me Mortals know me best | H |
| In battle and in flame | G |
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| Enough I know that clarion voice | I |
| I know that gleaming eye and helm | J |
| Those crimson lips and in their dew | K |
| The best blood of the realm | J |
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| The young the brave the good and wise | L |
| Have fallen in thy curst embrace | M |
| The juices of the grapes of wrath | N |
| Still stain thy guilty face | M |
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| My brother lies in yonder field | O |
| Face downward to the quiet grass | P |
| Go back he cannot see thee now | Q |
| But here thou shalt not pass | P |
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| A crack upon the evening air | B |
| A wakened echo from the hill | E |
| The watchdog on the distant shore | R |
| Gives mouth and all is still | E |
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| The sentry with his brother lies | L |
| Face downward on the quiet grass | P |
| And by him in the pale moonshine | S |
| A shadow seems to pass | P |
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| No lance or warlike shield it bears | T |
| A helmet in its pitying hands | U |
| Brings water from the nearest brook | V |
| To meet his last demands | U |
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| Can this be she of haughty mien | W |
| The goddess of the sword and shield | O |
| Ah yes The Grecian poet's myth | X |
| Sways still each battlefield | O |
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| For not alone that rugged War | R |
| Some grace or charm from Beauty gains | Y |
| But when the goddess' work is done | Z |
| The woman's still remains | Y |
Bret Harte (francis)
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