The Red Cross Nurse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCADEFCGDEFFHHIGJ CKCLMKMLC| ONE summer day gleaming in memory | A |
| We drove my Joy and I | B |
| Through fragrant hawthorn lanes | C |
| Gold fringed with wisps of rye | B |
| Brushed off the harvest wains | C |
| From that old gladsome town of Shrewsbury | A |
| Throned on twin hills and girdled by a loop | D |
| Of the brown Severn out to Battlefield | E |
| Henry the Fourth with his usurping sword | F |
| Smote here the haughty Percies | C |
| And after builded here as due to Him | G |
| Who made rebellion stoop | D |
| And lesser traitors to chief traitor yield | E |
| A church Decayed restored | F |
| Its centuries afford | F |
| To stranger eyes enshadowed by the view | H |
| Of that ridged burial plain from which it grew | H |
| No sight more sacred than a crude | I |
| Image of visage dim | G |
| Hewn by some ancient tool from forest wood | J |
| Our Lady of the Mercies | C |
| Even so long ago amid the slaughter | K |
| Hushed now beneath its coverlet of flowers | C |
| Groped this imperfect dream | L |
| Of Pity pure divine | M |
| Madonna look to day upon thy daughter | K |
| And know her by the crimson cross the sign | M |
| Of love that shall at last at last redeem | L |
| This war torn world of ours | C |
Katharine Lee Bates
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