H. P. Nichols

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The Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBC DEFE GHIH FJKL MNO DPQP GRDR QGIG DSIS

Come hither little brothersA
And listen now to meB
And I will read a storyB
To both while at my kneeB
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Then Johnnie's flag hung idlyB
And Charlie hushed his drumC
To hear sweet Mary's storyB
The mimic soldiers comeC
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'Tis of a boy no largerD
My little Charles than youE
But he had been in battleF
And all its terrors knewE
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His father was a captainG
He had no child besideH
And while he was an infantI
His mother dear had diedH
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And so from camp to battleF
From fight to camp againJ
Had lived this little heroK
On many a bloody plainL
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One day when shouts were loudestM
Upon the reddened fieldN
When came the victor's war cryO
'See see they fly they yield '-
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Forth then to seek his fatherD
He went with eager joyP
But with a chance ball woundedQ
Low lay the fearless boyP
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The son of a brave chieftainG
He made no sigh or groanR
His father's hand yet tighterD
He clasped within his ownR
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And so when strife was endedQ
No more to be begunG
In conquest's very momentI
Thus fell the chieftain's sonG
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Then John took out his featherD
And put his flag awayS
And Charlie's drum was silentI
Until another dayS

H. P. Nichols



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