After The Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHGH IFIF JKJK HHLM NONO PQPQ HRHS TOTU VKVK WXYX NKNK KPKZ VA2VA2 KKKK B2KB2KWE crown d the hard won heights at length | A |
Baptiz d in flame and fire | B |
We saw the foeman s sullen strength | A |
That grimly made retire | C |
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Saw close at hand then saw more far | D |
Beneath the battle smoke | E |
The ridges of his shatter d war | F |
That broke and ever broke | E |
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But one an English household s pride | G |
Dear many ways to me | H |
Who climb d that death path by my side | G |
I sought but could not see | H |
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Last seen what time our foremost rank | I |
That iron tempest tore | F |
He touch d he scal d the rampart bank | I |
Seen then and seen no more | F |
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One friend to aid I measur d back | J |
With him that pathway dread | K |
No fear to wander from our track | J |
Its waymarks English dead | K |
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Light thicken d but our search was crown d | H |
As we too well divin d | H |
And after briefest quest we found | L |
What we most fear d to find | M |
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His bosom with one death shot riven | N |
The warrior boy lay low | O |
His face was turn d unto the heaven | N |
His feet unto the foe | O |
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As he had fallen upon the plain | P |
Inviolate he lay | Q |
No ruffian spoiler s hand profane | P |
Had touch d that noble clay | Q |
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And precious things he still retain d | H |
Which by one distant hearth | R |
Lov d tokens of the lov d had gain d | H |
A worth beyond all worth | S |
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I treasur d these for them who yet | T |
Knew not their mighty wo | O |
I softly seal d his eyes and set | T |
One kiss upon his brow | U |
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A decent grave we scoop d him where | V |
Less thickly lay the dead | K |
And decently compos d him there | V |
Within that narrow bed | K |
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O theme for manhood s bitter tears | W |
The beauty and the bloom | X |
Of less than twenty summer years | Y |
Shut in that darksome tomb | X |
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Of soldier sire the soldier son | N |
Life s honor d eventide | K |
One lives to close in England one | N |
In maiden battle died | K |
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And they that should have been the mourn d | K |
The mourners parts obtain | P |
Such thoughts were ours as we return d | K |
To earth its earth again | Z |
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Brief words we read of faith and prayer | V |
Beside that hasty grave | A2 |
Then turn d away and left him there | V |
The gentle and the brave | A2 |
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I calling back with thankful heart | K |
With thoughts to peace allied | K |
Hours when we two had knelt apart | K |
Upon the lone hillside | K |
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And comforted I prais d the grace | B2 |
Which him had led to be | K |
An early seeker of that Face | B2 |
Which he should early see | K |
Richard Chenevix Trench
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