The Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGFHe is that fallen lance that lies as hurled | A |
That lies unlifted now come dew come rust | B |
But still lies pointed as it ploughed the dust | B |
If we who sight along it round the world | A |
See nothing worthy to have been its mark | C |
It is because like men we look too near | D |
Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere | D |
Our missiles always make too short an arc | C |
They fall they rip the grass they intersect | E |
The curve of earth and striking break their own | F |
They make us cringe for metal point on stone | F |
But this we know the obstacle that checked | E |
And tripped the body shot the spirit on | G |
Further than target ever showed or shone | F |
Robert Lee Frost
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