Dirge For A Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD EEFGGFHH IIJGGJKK LLMNNMOO PPQRRQPP AAIRRIFF| In the east the morning comes | A |
| Hear the rollin' of the drums | A |
| On the hill | B |
| But the heart that beat as they beat | C |
| In the battle's raging day heat | C |
| Lieth still | B |
| Unto him the night has come | D |
| Though they roll the morning drum | D |
| - | |
| What is in the bugle's blast | E |
| It is Victory at last | E |
| Now for rest | F |
| But my comrades come behold him | G |
| Where our colors now enfold him | G |
| And his breast | F |
| Bares no more to meet the blade | H |
| But lies covered in the shade | H |
| - | |
| What a stir there is to day | I |
| They are laying him away | I |
| Where he fell | J |
| There the flag goes draped before him | G |
| Now they pile the grave sod o'er him | G |
| With a knell | J |
| And he answers to his name | K |
| In the higher ranks of fame | K |
| - | |
| There's a woman left to mourn | L |
| For the child that she has borne | L |
| In travail | M |
| But her heart beats high and higher | N |
| With the patriot mother's fire | N |
| At the tale | M |
| She has borne and lost a son | O |
| But her work and his are done | O |
| - | |
| Fling the flag out let it wave | P |
| They 're returning from the grave | P |
| Double quick | Q |
| And the cymbals now are crashing | R |
| Bright his comrades' eyes are flashing | R |
| From the thick | Q |
| Battle ranks which knew him brave | P |
| No tears for a hero's grave | P |
| - | |
| In the east the morning comes | A |
| Hear the rattle of the drums | A |
| Far away | I |
| Now no time for grief's pursuing | R |
| Other work is for the doing | R |
| Here to day | I |
| He is sleeping let him rest | F |
| With the flag across his breast | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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