Do They Think Of Us? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHHBBIIJJ HHBBDDBBB| October after the Battle of Ball's Bluff | A |
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| Do they think of us say in the far distant West | B |
| On the Prairies of Peace in the Valleys of Rest | B |
| On the long dusty march when the suntide is hot | C |
| O say are their sons and their brothers forgot | C |
| Are our names on their lips is our comfort their care | D |
| When they kneel to the God of our fathers in prayer | D |
| When at night on their warm downy pillows they lie | E |
| Wrapped in comfort and ease do they think of us say | F |
| When the rain patters down on the roof overhead | G |
| Do they think of the camps without shelter or bed | G |
| Ah many a night on the cold ground we've lain | H |
| Chilled chilled to the heart by the merciless rain | H |
| And yet there stole o'er us the peace of the blest | B |
| For our spirits went back to our homes in the West | B |
| O we think of them and it sharpens our steel | I |
| When the battle smoke rolls and the grim cannon peal | I |
| When forward we rush at the shrill bugle's call | J |
| To the hail storm of conflict where many must fall | J |
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| When night settles down on the slaughter piled plain | H |
| And the dead are at rest and the wounded in pain | H |
| Do they think of us say in the far distant West | B |
| On the Prairies of Peace in the Valleys of Rest | B |
| Aye comrades we know that our darlings are there | D |
| With their hearts full of hope and their souls full of prayer | D |
| And it steadies our rifles it steels every breast | B |
| The thought of our loved ones at home in the West | B |
| On the Prairies of Peace in the Valleys of Rest | B |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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