The Secret Foe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH HIHI JKJK LMNM| When now to battle he shall ride | A |
| The bravest of the brave | B |
| Joan the Maid be by his side | A |
| And Michael quick to save | B |
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| Not against man's most fell device | C |
| The shell the gas the mine | D |
| These he shall meet with steady eyes | E |
| And courage half divine | D |
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| Oh not the gaping wounds and red | F |
| And not the tortured sense | G |
| And not the dying and the dead | F |
| And his own impotence | H |
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| But when the joy of battle faints | H |
| And his hot blood grows chill | I |
| Be near him all ye soldier saints | H |
| Lest Satan work him ill | I |
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| Lest in the hour of his great fight | J |
| This foe should him assail | K |
| The enemy that creeps by night | J |
| Strike through his coat of mail | K |
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| Sebastian of the arrows haste | L |
| Michael and the White Maid | M |
| Lest in his splendid hour at last | N |
| The soldier be afraid | M |
Katharine Tynan
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