In The Harbour: Decoration Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML| Sleep comrades sleep and rest | A |
| On this Field of the Grounded Arms | B |
| Where foes no more molest | A |
| Nor sentry's shot alarms | B |
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| Ye have slept on the ground before | C |
| And started to your feet | D |
| At the cannon's sudden roar | C |
| Or the drum's redoubling beat | D |
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| But in this camp of Death | E |
| No sound your slumber breaks | F |
| Here is no fevered breath | E |
| No wound that bleeds and aches | F |
| - | |
| All is repose and peace | G |
| Untrampled lies the sod | H |
| The shouts of battle cease | G |
| It is the Truce of God | H |
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| Rest comrades rest and sleep | I |
| The thoughts of men shall be | J |
| As sentinels to keep | I |
| Your rest from danger free | J |
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| Your silent tents of green | K |
| We deck with fragrant flowers | L |
| Yours has the suffering been | M |
| The memory shall be ours | L |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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