The Two Armies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH DDIIJJKK LLDDMMMM NNOOMMPP| Two armies stand enrolled beneath | A |
| The banner with the starry wreath | A |
| One facing battle blight and blast | B |
| Through twice a hundred fields has passed | B |
| Its deeds against a ruffian foe | C |
| Stream valley hill and mountain know | C |
| Till every wind that sweeps the land | D |
| Goes glory laden from the strand | D |
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| The other with a narrower scope | E |
| Yet led by not less grand a hope | E |
| Hath won perhaps as proud a place | F |
| And wears its fame with meeker grace | F |
| Wives march beneath its glittering sign | G |
| Fond mothers swell the lovely line | G |
| And many a sweetheart hides her blush | H |
| In the young patriot's generous flush | H |
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| No breeze of battle ever fanned | D |
| The colors of that tender band | D |
| Its office is beside the bed | I |
| Where throbs some sick or wounded head | I |
| It does not court the soldier's tomb | J |
| But plies the needle and the loom | J |
| And by a thousand peaceful deeds | K |
| Supplies a struggling nation's needs | K |
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| Nor is that army's gentle might | L |
| Unfelt amid the deadly fight | L |
| It nerves the son's the husband's hand | D |
| It points the lover's fearless brand | D |
| It thrills the languid warms the cold | M |
| Gives even new courage to the bold | M |
| And sometimes lifts the veriest clod | M |
| To its own lofty trust in God | M |
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| When Heaven shall blow the trump of peace | N |
| And bid this weary warfare cease | N |
| Their several missions nobly done | O |
| The triumph grasped and freedom won | O |
| Both armies from their toils at rest | M |
| Alike may claim the victor's crest | M |
| But each shall see its dearest prize | P |
| Gleam softly from the other's eyes | P |
Henry Timrod
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