The Honor Roll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD AAEE FFGG HHII| The boys upon the honor roll God bless them all I pray | A |
| God watch them when they sleep at night and guard them through the day | A |
| We've stamped their names upon our walls the list in glory grows | B |
| Our brave boys and our splendid boys who stand to meet our foes | B |
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| Oh here are sons of mothers fair and fathers fine and true | C |
| The little ones of yesterday the children that we knew | C |
| We thought of them as youngsters gay still laughing at their games | D |
| And then we found the honor roll emblazoned with their names | D |
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| We missed their laughter and their cheer it seems but yesterday | A |
| We had them here to walk with us and now they've marched away | A |
| And here where once their smiles were seen we keep a printed scroll | E |
| The absent boy we long to see is on the honor roll | E |
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| So quickly did the summons come we scarcely marked the change | F |
| One day life marched its normal pace the next all things seemed strange | F |
| And when we questioned where they were the sturdiest of us all | G |
| We saw the silent honor roll on each familiar wall | G |
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| The laughter that we knew has gone the merry voice of youth | H |
| No longer rings where graybeards sit discussing sombre truth | H |
| No longer jests are flung about to rouse our weary souls | I |
| For they who meant so much to us are on our honor rolls | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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