The Discovery Of A Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFF GGHHIIJJK CCLLJJMMFF| m up at his worst or best | A |
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| He didn't seem to care for work he wasn't much at school | B |
| His speech was slow and commonplace you wouldn't call him fool | B |
| And yet until the war broke out you'd calmly pass him by | C |
| For nothing in his make up or his way would catch your eye | C |
| He seemed indifferent to the world the kind that doesn't care | D |
| That's satisfied with just enough to eat and drink and wear | D |
| That doesn't laugh when others do or cry when others weep | E |
| But seems to walk the wakeful world half dormant and asleep | E |
| Then came the war and soldiers marched and drums began to roll | F |
| And suddenly we realized his body held a soul | F |
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| We little dreamed how much he loved his Country and her Flag | G |
| About the glorious Stars and Stripes we'd never heard him brag | G |
| But he was first to volunteer while brilliant men demurred | H |
| He took the oath of loyalty without a faltering word | H |
| And then we found that he could talk for one remembered night | I |
| There came a preaching pacifist denouncing men who fight | I |
| And he got up in uniform and looked at him and said | J |
| 'I wonder if you ever think about our soldiers dead | J |
| All that you are to day you owe some soldier in his grave | K |
| If he had been afraid to fight you still would be a slave ' | - |
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| If he had died a year ago beneath a peaceful sky | C |
| Unjust our memory would have been of him our tongues would lie | C |
| We should have missed his splendid worth we should have called him frail | L |
| And listed him among the weak and sorry men who fail | L |
| But few regrets had marked his end he would have passed unmourned | J |
| Perhaps by those who knew him best indifferently scorned | J |
| But now he stands among us all eyes bright and shoulders true | M |
| A strong defender of the faith a man with work to do | M |
| And if he dies his name shall find its place on history's scroll | F |
| The great chance has revealed to men the splendor of his soul | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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