Last Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FDGDHIJI FKLMFNON FPQPAR R FSFSTUVU FWA FXAX FYZYXA2DA2 AIB2IC2D2VD2 ZE2F2E2MXYX FG2H2G2ANI2N H2ZHZI2J2K2J2Dear Charlie breathed a soldier | A |
O comrade true and tried | B |
Who in the heat of battle | C |
Pressed closely to my side | B |
I feel that I am stricken | D |
My life is ebbing fast | E |
I fain would have you with me | F |
Dear Charlie till the last | E |
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It seems so sudden Charlie | F |
To think to morrow's sun | D |
Will look upon me lifeless | G |
And I not twenty one | D |
I little dreamed this morning | H |
Twould bring my last campaign | I |
God's ways are not as our ways | J |
And I will not complain | I |
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There's one at home dear Charlie | F |
Will mourn for me when dead | K |
Whose heart it is a mother's | L |
Can scarce be comforted | M |
You'll write and tell her Charlie | F |
With my dear love that I | N |
Fought bravely as a soldier should | O |
And died as he should die | N |
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And you will tell her Charlie | F |
She must not grieve too much | P |
Our country claims our young lives | Q |
For she has need of such | P |
And where is he would falter | A |
Or turn ignobly back | R |
When Duty's voice cries 'Forward ' | - |
And Honor lights the track | R |
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And there's another Charlie | F |
His voice became more low | S |
When thoughts of HER come o'er me | F |
It makes it hard to go | S |
This locket in my bosom | T |
She gave me just before | U |
I left my native village | V |
For the fearful scenes of war | U |
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Give her this message Charlie | F |
Sent with my dying breath | W |
To her and to my banner | A |
I'm 'faithful unto death ' | - |
And if in that far country | F |
Which I am going to | X |
Our earthly ties may enter | A |
I'll there my love renew | X |
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Come nearer closer Charlie | F |
My head I fain would rest | Y |
It must be for the last time | Z |
Upon your faithful breast | Y |
Dear friend I cannot tell you | X |
How in my heart I feel | A2 |
The depth of your devotion | D |
Your friendship strong as steel | A2 |
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We've watched and camped together | A |
In sunshine and in rain | I |
We've shared the toils and perils | B2 |
Of more than one campaign | I |
And when my tired feet faltered | C2 |
Beneath the noontide heat | D2 |
Your words sustained my courage | V |
Gave new strength to my feet | D2 |
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And once 'twas at Antietam | Z |
Pressed hard by thronging foes | E2 |
I almost sank exhausted | F2 |
Beneath their cruel blows | E2 |
When you dear friend undaunted | M |
With headlong courage threw | X |
Your heart into the contest | Y |
And safely brought me through | X |
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My words are weak dear Charlie | F |
My breath is growing scant | G2 |
Your hand upon my heart there | H2 |
Can you not hear me pant | G2 |
Your thoughts I know will wander | A |
Sometimes to where I lie | N |
How dark it grows True comrade | I2 |
And faithful friend good by | N |
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A moment and he lay there | H2 |
A statue pale and calm | Z |
His youthful head reclining | H |
Upon his comrade's arm | Z |
His limbs upon the greensward | I2 |
Were stretched in careless grace | J2 |
And by the fitful moon was seen | K2 |
A smile upon his face | J2 |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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