The Little Homes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDAD EFCFGDAD HIHIAJAK LMCMNOAO GOAOGPAQ RSGSTQGQ AJCKCQTQ AUVUWOXO HQCQAQXQ ROWOEDADWe have heard the cheering brothers | A |
We have heard the martial peal | B |
We have seen the soldiers marching | C |
And the glint of sun and steel | B |
We have heard the songs the shouting | C |
But while forth the soldier roams | D |
Who has heard the weeping brothers | A |
In the Little Homes | D |
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We have seen the gay processions | E |
And the careless laughing crowds | F |
We have seen the banners waving | C |
Out against the peaceful clouds | F |
Yet while colors proudly flutter | G |
Over noble spires and domes | D |
Who has seen the mourning brothers | A |
In the Little Homes | D |
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From the Little Homes that nestle | H |
Where the smiling fields sweep wide | I |
From the Little Homes that huddle | H |
In the city side by side | I |
They have called the eager fighters | A |
Men who went with smiles and cheers | J |
Pride of wives and pride of mothers | A |
Choking back the tears | K |
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Women of the little homesteads | L |
Women of the city slums | M |
They are waiting ever waiting | C |
And the sound of muffled drums | M |
In some stricken Home is echoed | N |
Where grey Grief is guest to day | O |
And to morrow Nay the others | A |
Still must wait and pray | O |
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What the Little Homes shall suffer | G |
What the Little Homes shall pay | O |
Must be more than sturdy fighters | A |
More than women's grief to day | O |
In the years that follow after | G |
Be our battles won or lost | P |
In the Little Homes my brothers | A |
They shall pay the cost | Q |
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They shall pay the cost of glory | R |
They shall pay the price of peace | S |
Years and many long years after | G |
All the sounds of battle cease | S |
When the sword is sheathed or broken | T |
When the battle flag is furled | Q |
Still the Little Homes must suffer | G |
Over all the World | Q |
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Have you seen the old grey mothers | A |
Smiling to the ringing cheers | J |
Have you seen the young wives striving | C |
Bravely to hold back the tears | K |
Have you seen the young girl marching | C |
By her soldier lover's side | Q |
Have you seen our country's women | T |
All aglow with pride | Q |
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Then shall we think shame my brothers | A |
To give thanks upon our knees | U |
That the land we love should hold them | V |
Wives and mothers such as these | U |
Women who still hide their sorrow | W |
As their soldiers march away | O |
Turning brave and steadfast faces | X |
To the light of day | O |
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Oh the Little Homes are Cheerful | H |
Little Homes that know no pride | Q |
But the pride of sacrificing | C |
Loved ones to the battle tide | Q |
They are many many brothers | A |
And their sacrifice is great | Q |
Shrines are they and sacred places | X |
Where the women wait | Q |
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Aye the Little Homes are holy | R |
At the closing of the day | O |
When young wives must face their sorrow | W |
When grey mothers kneel to pray | O |
Facing all alone dread visions | E |
Of the land the soldier roams | D |
Then God heed the sobbing brothers | A |
In the Little Homes | D |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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