A Hero Of The Revolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKBL| Let not a tear be shed | A |
| Of grief give not a token | B |
| Although the silver thread | A |
| And golden bowl be broken | B |
| A warrior lived a Christian died | C |
| Sorrow's forgotten in our pride | C |
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| Go bring his battle blade | D |
| His helmet and his plume | E |
| And be his trophies laid | D |
| Beside him in the tomb | E |
| Where files of time marked veterans come | F |
| With martial tramp and muffled drum | F |
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| Give to the earth his frame | G |
| To moulder and decay | H |
| But not his deathless name | G |
| That can not pass away | H |
| In youth in manhood and in age | I |
| He dignified his country's page | I |
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| Green be the willow bough | J |
| Above the swelling mound | K |
| Where sleeps the hero now | J |
| In consecrated ground | K |
| Thy epitaph O Delavan | B |
| God's noblest work an honest man | L |
George Pope Morris
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