A Prayer { For Those Who Shall Return} Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ JKJKLL| LORD when they come back again | A |
| From the dreadful battlefield | B |
| To the common ways of men | A |
| Be Thy mercy Lord revealed | B |
| Make them to forget the dread | C |
| Fields of dying and the dead | C |
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| Let them go unhaunted Lord | D |
| By the sights that they have seen | E |
| Guard their dreams from shell and sword | D |
| Lead them by the pastures green | E |
| That they wander all night long | F |
| In the fields where they were young | G |
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| Grant no charnel horrors slip | H |
| 'Twixt them and their child's soft face | I |
| Breast to breast and lip to lip | H |
| Let the lovers meet embrace | I |
| Be they innocent of all | J |
| Memories that affright appal | J |
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| Let their ears love music still | J |
| And their eyes rejoice to see | K |
| Glory on the sea and hill | J |
| Beauty in the flower and tree | K |
| Drop a veil that none may raise | L |
| Over dreadful nights and days | L |
Katharine Tynan
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