The Record Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOPO IQOQ RSTS UHVH WLFL| HE sleeps his head upon his sword | A |
| His soldier's cloak a shroud | B |
| His church yard is the open field | C |
| Three times it has been plough'd | B |
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| The first time that the wheat sprung up | D |
| 'Twas black as if with blood | E |
| The meanest beggar turn'd away | F |
| From the unholy food | G |
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| The third year and the grain grew fair | H |
| As it was wont to wave | I |
| None would have thought that golden corn | J |
| Was growing on the grave | I |
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| His lot was but a peasant's lot | K |
| His name a peasant's name | L |
| Not his the place of death that turns | M |
| Into a place of fame | L |
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| He fell as other thousands do | N |
| Trampled down where they fall | O |
| While on a single name is heap'd | P |
| The glory gain'd by all | O |
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| Yet even he whose common grave | I |
| Lies in the open fields | Q |
| Died not without a thought of all | O |
| The joy that glory yields | Q |
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| That small white church in his own land | R |
| The lime trees almost hide | S |
| Bears on the walls the names of those | T |
| Who for their country died | S |
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| His name is written on those walls | U |
| His mother read it there | H |
| With pride oh no there could not be | V |
| Pride in the widow's prayer | H |
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| And many a stranger who shall mark | W |
| That peasant roll of fame | L |
| Will think on prouder ones yet say | F |
| This was a hero's name | L |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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