Brave Boys Are They! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIH JKLKMNON PQRQSTUT VUBUWXYX| Heavily falls the rain | A |
| Wild are the breezes tonight | B |
| But 'neath the roof the hours as they fly | C |
| Are happy and calm and bright | B |
| Gathering round our fireside | D |
| Tho' it be summer time | E |
| We sit and talk of brothers abroad | F |
| Forgetting the midnight chime | E |
| - | |
| Brave boys are they | G |
| Gone at their country's call | H |
| And yet and yet we cannot forget | I |
| That many brave boys must fall | H |
| - | |
| Under the homestead roof | J |
| Nestled so cozy and warm | K |
| While soldiers sleep with little or naught | L |
| To shelter them from the storm | K |
| Resting on grassy couches | M |
| Pillow'd on hillocks damp | N |
| Of martial fare how little we know | O |
| Till brothers are in the camp | N |
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| Thinking no less of them | P |
| Loving our country the more | Q |
| We sent them forth to fight for the flag | R |
| Their fathers before them bore | Q |
| Though the great tear drops started | S |
| This was our parting trust | T |
| God bless you boys we'll welcome you home | U |
| When rebels are in the dust | T |
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| May the bright wings of love | V |
| Guard them wherever they roam | U |
| The time has come when brothers must fight | B |
| And sisters must pray at home | U |
| Oh The dread field of battle | W |
| Soon to be strewn with graves | X |
| If brothers fall then bury them where | Y |
| Our banner in triumph waves | X |
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