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 YZYZ| Where 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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