Little Major Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE DEAE FGFGHIFI FJKJLMAN FOPOCQRQ| At his post the Little Major | A |
| Dropp'd his drum that battle day | B |
| On the grass all stain'd with crimson | C |
| Through that battle night he lay | B |
| Crying Oh for love of Jesus | D |
| Grant me but this little boon | E |
| Can you friend refuse me water | A |
| Can you when I die so soon | E |
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| Crying Oh for love of Jesus | D |
| Grant me but this little boon | E |
| Can you friend refuse me water | A |
| Can you when I die so soon | E |
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| They are none to hear or help him | F |
| All his friends were early fled | G |
| Save the forms outstrech'd around him | F |
| Of the dying and the dead | G |
| Hush they come there falls a footstep | H |
| How it makes his heart rejoice | I |
| They will help Oh they will save him | F |
| When they hear his fainting voice | I |
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| Now the lights are flashing round him | F |
| And he hears a loyal word | J |
| Strangers they whose lips pronouce it | K |
| Yet he trusts his voice is heard | J |
| It is heard Oh God forgive them | L |
| They refuse his dying pray'r | M |
| Nothing but a wounded drummer | A |
| So they say and leave him there | N |
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| See the moon that shone above him | F |
| Veils her face as if in grief | O |
| And the skies are sadly weeping | P |
| Shielding teardrops of relief | O |
| Yet to die by friends forsaken | C |
| With his last request denied | Q |
| This he felt his keenest anquish | R |
| When at morn he gasp'd and died | Q |
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