A Soldier's Valentine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGHGIJKJ LMNMOFEF PLELQRSR TULULLVL| Just from the sentry's tramp | A |
| I must take it again at ten | B |
| I have laid my musket down | C |
| And seized instead my pen | B |
| For pacing my lonely round | D |
| In the chilly twilight gray | E |
| The thought dear Mary came | F |
| That this is St Valentine's Day | E |
| - | |
| And with the thought there came | F |
| A glimpse of the happy time | G |
| When a school boy's first attempt | H |
| I sent you in borrowed rhyme | G |
| On a gilt edged sheet embossed | I |
| With many a quaint design | J |
| And signed in school boy hand | K |
| Your loving Valentine | J |
| - | |
| The years have come and gone | L |
| Have flown I know not where | M |
| And the school boy's merry face | N |
| Is grave with manhood's care | M |
| But the heart of the man still beats | O |
| At the well remembered name | F |
| And on this St Valentine's Day | E |
| His choice is still the same | F |
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| There was a time ah well | P |
| Think not that I repine | L |
| When I dreamed this happy day | E |
| Would smile on you as mine | L |
| But I heard my country's call | Q |
| I knew her need was sore | R |
| Thank God no selfish thought | S |
| Withheld me from the war | R |
| - | |
| But when the dear old flag | T |
| Shall float in its ancient pride | U |
| When the twain shall be made one | L |
| And feuds no more divide | U |
| I will lay my musket down | L |
| My martial garb resign | L |
| And turn my joyous feet | V |
| Toward home and Valentine | L |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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