William Upson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDEE FFGG BBHI JJKK LLMM NNOO PQRS BBMM TTUU TVCW BXYY NZA2B2| A | |
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| Air The Major's Only Son | B |
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| Come all good people far and near | C |
| Oh come and see what you can hear | D |
| It's of a young man true and brave | E |
| Who is now sleeping in his grave | E |
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| Now William Upson was his name | F |
| If it's not that it's all the same | F |
| He did enlist in the cruel strife | G |
| And it caused him to lose his life | G |
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| He was Jesse Upson's eldest son | B |
| His father loved his noble son | B |
| This son was nineteen years of age | H |
| In the rebellion he engaged | I |
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| His father said that he might go | J |
| But his dear mother she said no | J |
| Stay at home dear Billy she said | K |
| But oh she could not turn his head | K |
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| For go he would and go he did | L |
| He would not do as his mother bid | L |
| For he went away down South there | M |
| Where he could not have his mother's care | M |
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| He went to Nashville Tennessee | N |
| There his kind friends he could not see | N |
| He died among strangers far away | O |
| They knew not where his body lay | O |
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| He was taken sick and lived four weeks | P |
| And oh how his parents weep | Q |
| But now they must in sorrow mourn | R |
| Billy has gone to his heaven home | S |
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| If his mother could have seen her son | B |
| For she loved him her darling one | B |
| If she could heard his dying prayer | M |
| It would ease her heart till she met him there | M |
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| It would relieved his mother's heart | T |
| To have seen her son from this world depart | T |
| And hear his noble words of love | U |
| As he left this world for that above | U |
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| It will relieve his mother's heart | T |
| That her son is laid in our grave yard | V |
| Now she knows that his grave is near | C |
| She will not shed so many tears | W |
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| She knows not that it was her son | B |
| His coffin could not be opened | X |
| It might be some one in his place | Y |
| For she could not see his noble face | Y |
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| He enrolled in eighteen sixty three | N |
| The next day after Christmas eve | Z |
| He died in eighteen sixty four | A2 |
| Twenty third of March as I was told | B2 |
Julia Ann Moore
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