Killed At The Ford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDC EFGFEFG BHBHIJJ KLMJMIJ NOONNPQQP| He is dead the beautiful youth | A |
| The heart of honor the tongue of truth | A |
| He the life and light of us all | B |
| Whose voice was blithe as a bugle call | B |
| Whom all eyes followed with one consent | C |
| The cheer of whose laugh and whose pleasant word | D |
| Hushed all murmurs of discontent | C |
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| Only last night as we rode along | E |
| Down the dark of the mountain gap | F |
| To visit the picket guard at the ford | G |
| Little dreaming of any mishap | F |
| He was humming the words of some old song | E |
| Two red roses he had on his cap | F |
| And another he bore at the point of his sword | G |
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| Sudden and swift a whistling ball | B |
| Came out of a wood and the voice was still | H |
| Something I heard in the darkness fall | B |
| And for a moment my blood grew chill | H |
| I spake in a whisper as he who speaks | I |
| In a room where some one is lying dead | J |
| But he made no answer to what I said | J |
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| We lifted him up to his saddle again | K |
| And through the mire and the mist and the rain | L |
| Carried him back to the silent camp | M |
| And laid him as if asleep on his bed | J |
| And I saw by the light of the surgeon's lamp | M |
| Two white roses upon his cheeks | I |
| And one just over his heart blood red | J |
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| And I saw in a vision how far and fleet | N |
| That fatal bullet went speeding forth | O |
| Till it reached a town in the distant North | O |
| Till it reached a house in a sunny street | N |
| Till it reached a heart that ceased to beat | N |
| Without a murmur without a cry | P |
| And a bell was tolled in that far off town | Q |
| For one who had passed from cross to crown | Q |
| And the neighbors wondered that she should die | P |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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