The Colonel's Shield Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFGHF AIJKI LGMNG OMPQM RBSTB| Your picture slung about my neck | A |
| The day we went afield | B |
| Swung out before the trench | C |
| It caught the eye of rank and file | D |
| Who knew The Colonel's Shield | B |
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| I thrust it back and with my men | E |
| Our General rode ahead | F |
| We stormed the great redoubt | G |
| As if it were an easy thing | H |
| But rows of us fell dead | F |
| - | |
| Your picture hanging on my neck | A |
| Up with my men I rushed | I |
| We made an awful charge | J |
| And then my horse The Lady Bess | K |
| Dropped and my leg was crushed | I |
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| The blood of battle in my veins | L |
| A blue coat dragged me out | G |
| But I remembered you | M |
| I kissed your picture did you know | N |
| And yelled For the redoubt | G |
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| The Twenty fourth my scarred old dogs | O |
| Growled back He'll put us through | M |
| We'll take him in our arms | P |
| Our picture there the girl he loves | Q |
| Shall see what we can do | M |
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| The foe was silenced so were we | R |
| I lay upon the field | B |
| Among the Twenty fourth | S |
| Your picture shattered on my breast | T |
| Had proved The Colonel's Shield | B |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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