The Gold Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFGF HHD| The star upon their service flag has changed to gleaming gold | A |
| It speaks no more of hope and life as once it did of old | A |
| But splendidly it glistens now for every eye to see | B |
| And softly whispers 'Here lived one who died for liberty | B |
| - | |
| 'Here once he walked and played and laughed here oft his smile was known | C |
| Within these walls today are kept the toys he used to own | C |
| Now I am he who marched away and I am he who fell | D |
| Of service once I spoke but now of sacrifice I tell | D |
| 'No richer home in all this land is there than this I grace | E |
| For here was cradled manhood fine within this humble place | E |
| A soldier for the truth was born and here beside the door | F |
| A mother sits and grieves for him who shall return no | G |
| more | F |
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| ''Salute me stranger as you pass I mark a soldier who | H |
| Gave up the joys of living here to dare and die for you | H |
| This is the home that once he knew who fought for you and fell | D |
| This is a shrine of sacrifice where faith and courage dwell ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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