Songs For The Soldiers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOMPQRS TUVIIF songs be sung let minstrels strike their harps | A |
To large and joyous strains all thunder winged | B |
To beat along vast shores Ay let their notes | C |
Wild into eagles soaring toward the sun | D |
And voiced like bugles bursting through the dawn | E |
When armies leap to life Give them such breasts | F |
As hold immortal fires and they shall fly | G |
Swept with our little sphere through all the change | H |
That waits a whirling world | I |
Joy's an immortal | J |
She hath a fiery fibre in her flesh | K |
That will not droop or die so let her chant | L |
The p ans of the dead where holy Grief | M |
Hath trembling thrust the feeble mist aside | N |
That veils her dead and in the wondrous clasp | O |
Of re possession ceases to be Grief | M |
Joy's ample voice shall still roll over all | P |
And chronicle the heroes to young hearts | Q |
Who knew them not | R |
There's glory on the sword | S |
That keeps its scabbard sleep unless the foe | T |
Beat at the wall then freely leaps to light | U |
And thrusts to keep the sacred towers of Home | V |
And the dear lines that map the nation out upon the world | I |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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