The Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFGF HIJI KLML NOPO QRSR DGTG NRUR VWXW YQZQ TA2B2A2| Contributed To The Fair For The Ladies' | A |
| Patriotic Fund Of The Pacific | B |
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| Who comes The sentry's warning cry | C |
| Rings sharply on the evening air | D |
| Who comes The challenge no reply | C |
| Yet something motions there | D |
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| A woman by those graceful folds | E |
| A soldier by that martial tread | F |
| Advance three paces Halt until | G |
| Thy name and rank be said | F |
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| My name Her name in ancient song | H |
| Who fearless from Olympus came | I |
| Look on me Mortals know me best | J |
| In battle and in flame | I |
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| Enough I know that clarion voice | K |
| I know that gleaming eye and helm | L |
| Those crimson lips and in their dew | M |
| The best blood of the realm | L |
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| The young the brave the good and wise | N |
| Have fallen in thy curst embrace | O |
| The juices of the grapes of wrath | P |
| Still stain thy guilty face | O |
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| My brother lies in yonder field | Q |
| Face downward to the quiet grass | R |
| Go back he cannot see thee now | S |
| But here thou shalt not pass | R |
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| A crack upon the evening air | D |
| A wakened echo from the hill | G |
| The watchdog on the distant shore | T |
| Gives mouth and all is still | G |
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| The sentry with his brother lies | N |
| Face downward on the quiet grass | R |
| And by him in the pale moonshine | U |
| A shadow seems to pass | R |
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| No lance or warlike shield it bears | V |
| A helmet in its pitying hands | W |
| Brings water from the nearest brook | X |
| To meet his last demands | W |
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| Can this be she of haughty mien | Y |
| The goddess of the sword and shield | Q |
| Ah yes The Grecian poet's myth | Z |
| Sways still each battlefield | Q |
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| For not alone that rugged War | T |
| Some grace or charm from Beauty gains | A2 |
| But when the goddess' work is done | B2 |
| The woman's still remains | A2 |
Bret Harte
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