His Monument Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEABFCCGHCGIEJCAC BBCAEKGLACHMANGBBEEG JEO| From top to pedestal you scan it lightly | A |
| Capped head to lettered base and you are smiling | B |
| What see you there to set your lips a quiver | C |
| An awkward figure cut from ugly granite | D |
| Aye roughly hewn as if unhelped by chisel | E |
| This peaceful man of war sculptured grotesquely | A |
| Still there is metal in the gun he is holding | B |
| And in the cannon balls piled up before him | F |
| The artist's symbols of a real soldier | C |
| Yet jeer no longer | C |
| Before you is a soldier of the Union | G |
| Crowned with the tears and prayers of many mourners | H |
| The Village set him here for all to honor | C |
| Here in the centre of their foot worn common | G |
| Where on long summer evenings boys at baseball | I |
| May gaze and gaze and make him an example | E |
| A hero they would follow | J |
| Beholding him I see no granite figure | C |
| But face a man who fought to save his country | A |
| Whose heart was pierced when wife and child and mother | C |
| Clung to him closely in that tearful parting | B |
| Yet brave he marched away while flags were fluttering | B |
| Though in his soul he knew that never never | C |
| Might he again see those he loved so dearly | A |
| Nor look again upon the old white steeple | E |
| Upon the little streets and shabby buildings | K |
| Straggling unevenly toward the Common | G |
| Or if he came back he'd be maimed and battered | L |
| Subject to hateful pity | A |
| Therefore I smile not at the queer gaunt figure | C |
| The tilted cap the wide and baggy trousers | H |
| The long loose overcoat the dangling knapsack | M |
| This is the man who fought to save our country | A |
| Who in his millions marched from every village | N |
| From every city of our mighty Nation | G |
| Who heard the drums and trumpets blithely playing | B |
| Tramp tramp tramp the boys are marching | B |
| So there it stands thank offering of a people | E |
| Whether of rough hewn stone or bronze or marble | E |
| Proving our debt to those who saved the Union | G |
| Pointing the way for those who'd like to follow | J |
| Who to the death would fight were we in peril | E |
| The Soldier's Monument | O |
Helen Leah Reed
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