Happy Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK ABAB| Bugle and battle cry are still | A |
| The long strife's over | B |
| Low o'er the corpse encumbered hill | A |
| The sad stars hover | B |
| - | |
| It is in vain O stars you look | C |
| On these forsaken | D |
| Awhile with blows on blows they shook | C |
| Or struck unshaken | D |
| - | |
| Needs now no pity of God or man | E |
| Tears for the living | F |
| They have 'scaped the confines of life's plan | E |
| That holds us grieving | F |
| - | |
| The unperturbed soft moon the stars | G |
| The breeze that lingers | H |
| Wake not to ineffectual wars | I |
| Their hearts and fingers | H |
| - | |
| Warriors o'ercoming and o'ercome | J |
| Alike contented | K |
| Have marched now to the last far drum | J |
| Praised unlamented | K |
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| Bugle and battle cry are still | A |
| The long strife's over | B |
| Oh that with them I had fought my fill | A |
| And found like cover | B |
John Frederick Freeman
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