The Price Of Victory. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDAD EFGFHIJI KLMLNOPO QRSRTUVW XIGIYZA2B2 C2WD2WE2F2AF2| A Victory a victory | A |
| Is flashed across the wires | B |
| Speed speed the news from State to State | C |
| Light up the signal fires | B |
| Let all the bells from all the towers | B |
| A joyous peal ring out | D |
| We've gained a glorious victory | A |
| And put the foe to rout | D |
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| A mother heard the chiming bells | E |
| Her joy was mixed with pain | F |
| Pray God she said my gallant boy | G |
| Be not among the slain | F |
| Alas for her that very hour | H |
| Outstretched in death he lay | I |
| The color from his fair young face | J |
| Had scarcely passed away | I |
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| His nerveless hand still grasped the sword | K |
| He never more might wield | L |
| His eyes were sealed in dreamless sleep | M |
| Upon that bloody field | L |
| The chestnut curls his mother oft | N |
| Had stroked in fondest pride | O |
| Neglected hung ia clotted locks | P |
| With deepest crimson dyed | O |
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| Ah many a mother's heart shall ache | Q |
| And bleed with anguish sore | R |
| When tidings come of him who marched | S |
| So blithely forth to war | R |
| Oh sad for them the stricken down | T |
| In manhood's early dawn | U |
| And sadder yet for loving hearts | V |
| God comfort them that mourn | W |
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| Yes victory has a fearful price | X |
| Our hearts may shrink to pay | I |
| And tears will mingle with the joy | G |
| That greets a glorious day | I |
| But he who dies in freedom's cause | Y |
| We cannot count him lost | Z |
| A battle won for truth and right | A2 |
| Is worth the blood it cost | B2 |
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| O mothers count it something gained | C2 |
| That they for whom you mourn | W |
| Bequeath fair Freedom's heritage | D2 |
| To millions yet unborn | W |
| And better than a thousand years | E2 |
| Of base ignoble breath | F2 |
| A patriot's fragrant memory | A |
| A hero's early death | F2 |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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