A True Hero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CC DD BB BB EE DD EE FF GG HI| JAMES BRAIDWOOD Died June | A |
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| NOT at the battle front writ of in story | B |
| Not on the blazing wreck steering to glory | B |
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| Not while in martyr pangs soul and flesh sever | C |
| Died he this Hero new hero forever | C |
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| No pomp poetic crowned no forms enchained him | D |
| No friends applauding watched no foes arraigned him | D |
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| Death found him there without grandeur or beauty | B |
| Only an honest man doing his duty | B |
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| Just a God fearing man simple and lowly | B |
| Constant at kirk and hearth kindly as holy | B |
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| Death found and touched him with finger in flying | E |
| Lo he rose up complete hero undying | E |
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| Now all men mourn for him lovingly raise him | D |
| Up from his life obscure chronicle praise him | D |
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| Tell his last act done midst peril appalling | E |
| And the last word of cheer from his lips falling | E |
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| Follow in multitudes to his grave's portal | F |
| Leave him there buried in honor immortal | F |
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| So many a Hero walks unseen beside us | G |
| Till comes the supreme stroke sent to divide us | G |
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| Then the LORD calls His own like this man even | H |
| Carried Elijah like fire winged to heaven | I |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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