Woman On The Field Of Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDF GBGB HBHB IJIJ JBJKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RJRJ SBSB KTKT UVUV WTXT J JIJI YZYZWhere hath not a woman stood | A |
Strong in affection's might a reed upborne | B |
By an o'er mastering current | C |
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GENTLE and lovely form | D |
What didst thou here | E |
When the fierce battle storm | D |
Bore down the spear | F |
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Banner and shiver'd crest | G |
Beside thee strown | B |
Tell that amidst the best | G |
Thy work was done | B |
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Yet strangely sadly fair | H |
O'er the wild scene | B |
Gleams through its golden hair | H |
That brow serene | B |
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Low lies the stately head | I |
Earth bound the free | J |
How gave those haughty dead | I |
A place to thee | J |
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Slumberer | J |
thine | B |
early bier | J |
Friends should have crown'd | K |
Many a flower and tear | J |
Shedding around | K |
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Soft voices clear and young | L |
Mingling their swell | M |
Should o'er thy dust have sung | L |
Earth's last farewell | M |
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Sisters above the grave | N |
Of thy repose | O |
Should have bid violets wave | N |
With the white rose | O |
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How must the trumpet's note | P |
Savage and shrill | Q |
For requiem o'er thee float | P |
Thou fair and still | Q |
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And the swift charger sweep | R |
In full career | J |
Trampling thy place of sleep | R |
Why camest thou here | J |
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Why ask the true heart why | S |
Woman hath been | B |
Ever where brave men die | S |
Unshrinking seen | B |
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Unto this harvest ground | K |
Proud reapers came | T |
Some for that stirring sound | K |
A warrior's name | T |
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Some for the stormy play | U |
And joy of strife | V |
And some to fling away | U |
A weary life | V |
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But thou pale sleeper thou | W |
With the slight frame | T |
And the rich locks whose glow | X |
Death cannot tame | T |
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Only one thought one power | J |
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Thee | J |
could have led | I |
So through the tempest's hour | J |
To lift thy head | I |
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Only the true the strong | Y |
The love whose trust | Z |
Woman's deep soul too long | Y |
Pours on the dust | Z |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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