Gone To The War. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB DEFEDE GHIHIH JKIKLK MCNCOC PNPNNN DQNQIQ| My Charlie has gone to the war | A |
| My Charlie so brave and tall | B |
| He left his plough in the furrow | C |
| And flew at his country's call | B |
| May God in safety keep him | D |
| My precious boy my all | B |
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| My heart is pining to see him | D |
| I miss him every day | E |
| My heart is weary with waiting | F |
| And sick of the long delay | E |
| But I know his country needs him | D |
| And I could not bid him stay | E |
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| I remember how his face flushed | G |
| And how his color came | H |
| When the flash from the guns of Sumter | I |
| Lit the whole land with flame | H |
| And darkened our country's banner | I |
| With the crimson hue of shame | H |
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| Mother he said then faltered | J |
| I felt his mute appeal | K |
| I paused if you are a mother | I |
| You know what mothers feel | K |
| When called to yield their dear ones | L |
| To the cruel bullet and steel | K |
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| My heart stood still for a moment | M |
| Struck with a mighty woe | C |
| A faint as of death came o'er me | N |
| I am a mother you know | C |
| But I sternly checked my weakness | O |
| And firmly bade him Go | C |
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| Wherever the fight is fiercest | P |
| I know that my boy will be | N |
| Wherever the need is sorest | P |
| Of the stout arms of the free | N |
| May he prove as true to his country | N |
| As he has been true to me | N |
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| My home is lonely without him | D |
| My hearth bereft of joy | Q |
| The thought of him who has left me | N |
| My constant sad employ | Q |
| But God has been good to the mother | I |
| She shall not blush for her boy | Q |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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