The Unforgotten Heroes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH DIDI EJEJ CKCK LMLM NONO PCPC PQPQ RCRC| The great temple at Miyagi in Japan was recently the scene | A |
| of grand funeral observances for the horses slain in the | B |
| late war with Russia the Buddhist priests reading prayers | C |
| and conducting services of a most solemn character | D |
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| Hark how the Orient's bells are proclaiming | E |
| Obsequies strange to the shrines of the west | F |
| Services Christendom's cruelties shaming | E |
| Taught by the merciful Buddha the blest | F |
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| Peace on Manchuria's plains has descended | G |
| Tall waves the grass where the chivalrous bled | H |
| Murder and massacre finally ended | G |
| Sadly the living remember their dead | H |
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| Requiem masses and prayers without number | D |
| Plead for the souls of the Muscovite brave | I |
| While of the Japanese wrapt in death's slumber | D |
| Tender memorials honor each grave | I |
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| But in Gautama's compassionate teaching | E |
| Love is not limited merely to man | J |
| Kindness to animals formed in his preaching | E |
| No less a part of his merciful plan | J |
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| Hence by the Buddhists in counting the corses | C |
| Heaping with horror the death trampled plain | K |
| Not unremembered are thousands of horses | C |
| Left unattended to die with the slain | K |
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| What did war seem to these poor driven cattle | L |
| What was their part in the horrible fray | M |
| Save to be shot in the fury of battle | L |
| Or from exhaustion to fall by the way | M |
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| Dragging huge guns over rocks and through mire | N |
| Trembling with weakness yet straining each nerve | O |
| Fated at last in despair to expire | N |
| Uncomprehending yet willing to serve | O |
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| Nothing to them were the hopes of a nation | P |
| Czar and Mikado were meaningless sounds | C |
| None of the patriot's deep inspiration | P |
| Softened the agony caused by their wounds | C |
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| Not for these martyrs the skill of physician | P |
| Ether for anguish or lint for a wound | Q |
| Theirs but to lie in their crippled condition | P |
| Thirsting and starving on shelterless ground | Q |
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| Hail to these quadrupeds dead without glory | R |
| Honor to him who their valor reveres | C |
| Spare to these heroes unmentioned in story | R |
| Something of sympathy something of tears | C |
John L. Stoddard
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