To Heavy Hearts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACDCDEFEFEGGHHGI JIJKLKLKMMLLMLNLNOGP GO| HEAVY hearts your jubilee | A |
| Droops about the Christmas Tree | A |
| Sudden sighs cut off the laughter | B |
| For a haunting pain comes after | B |
| All your gallant glee | A |
| Pain for your soldiers far away to night | C |
| O cloud that darkens on the Christmas star | D |
| Sons husbands those who wreathed your world with light | C |
| Far far so far | D |
| Be comforted They never were so near | E |
| In life's deep center of self sacrifice | F |
| You meet with vision clear | E |
| There in love's purest paradise | F |
| The touch of soul on soul is close and dear | E |
| Not to night shall soft cheeks glow | G |
| Where the Druid mistletoe | G |
| Weaves its charm while hollies twinkle | H |
| For the lads in some grim wrinkle | H |
| Of the earth crouch low | G |
| Hard is their Christmas in the aching trench | I |
| Or in the listening darkness mounting guard | J |
| Haggard with cold and sick with creeping stench | I |
| Hard hard so hard | J |
| Be comforted That hardness is their pride | K |
| Salute the strength that can endure the stress | L |
| Of such a Christmastide | K |
| Our earth made beautiful shall bless | L |
| Their stern young manhood nobly testified | K |
| Silver chimes are on the air | M |
| Sweet and blithe too blithe to bear | M |
| And what singing hearth rejoices | L |
| Missing the belov d voices | L |
| That were merriest there | M |
| The booming cannon are their Christmas bells | L |
| O Holy Child how many a homeless waif | N |
| Their carols are the hiss and crash of shells | L |
| God keep them safe | N |
| Be comforted For safe they are within | O |
| His quiet hand your soldiers who fulfil | G |
| In steadfast discipline | P |
| Like those calm stars His patient will | G |
| That is the peace beneath all battle din | O |
Katharine Lee Bates
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