By The Alma River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFFG HIHIJJKKLLM NFNFOOPQJJM RSRTUUVVWWM OBOB XXYYZZ| WILLIE fold your little hands | A |
| Let it drop that 'soldier' toy | B |
| Look where father's picture stands | A |
| Father who here kissed his boy | B |
| Not two months since father kind | C |
| Who this night may Never mind | C |
| Mother's sob my Willie dear | D |
| Call aloud that He may hear | E |
| Who is God of battles say | F |
| 'O keep father safe this day | F |
| By the Alma river ' | G |
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| Ask no more child Never heed | H |
| Either Russ or Frank or Turk | I |
| Right of nations or of creed | H |
| Chance poised victory's bloody work | I |
| Any flag i' the wind may roll | J |
| On thy heights Sebastopol | J |
| Willie all to you and me | K |
| Is that spot where'er it be | K |
| Where he stands no other word | L |
| Stands God sure the child's prayer heard | L |
| By the Alma river | M |
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| Willie listen to the bells | N |
| Ringing through the town to day | F |
| That's for victory Ah no knells | N |
| For the many swept away | F |
| Hundreds thousands Let us weep | O |
| We who need not just to keep | O |
| Reason steady in my brain | P |
| Till the morning comes again | Q |
| Till the third dread morning tell | J |
| Who they were that fought and fell | J |
| By the Alma river | M |
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| Come we'll lay us down my child | R |
| Poor the bed is poor and hard | S |
| Yet thy father far exiled | R |
| Sleeps upon the open sward | T |
| Dreaming of us two at home | U |
| Or beneath the starry dome | U |
| Digs out trenches in the dark | V |
| Where he buries Willie mark | V |
| Where he buries those who died | W |
| Fighting bravely at his side | W |
| By the Alma river | M |
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| Willie Willie go to sleep | O |
| God will keep us O my boy | B |
| He will make the dull hours creep | O |
| Faster and send news of joy | B |
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| When I need not shrink to meet | X |
| Those dread placards in the street | X |
| Which for weeks will ghastly stare | Y |
| In some eyes Child sy thy prayer | Y |
| Once again a different one | Z |
| Say 'O God Thy will be done | Z |
| By the Alma river ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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