The Last Salute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHFH AIAJ KFKF HLHL IMIM MNMN MAMA MKMK F FF| In a far field away from England lies | A |
| A boy I friended with a care like love | B |
| All day the wide earth aches the keen wind cries | A |
| The melancholy clouds drive on above | B |
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| There separate from him by a little span | C |
| Two eagle cousins generous reckless free | D |
| Two Grenfells lie and my boy is made man | C |
| One with these elder knights of chivalry | D |
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| Boy who expected not this dreadful day | E |
| Yet leaped a soldier at the sudden call | F |
| Drank as your fathers deeper though than they | E |
| The soldier's cup of anguish blood and gall | F |
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| Not now as friend but as a soldier I | G |
| Salute you fallen For the soldier's name | H |
| Our greatest honour is if worthily | F |
| These wayward hearts assume and bear the same | H |
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| The Soldier's is a name none recognise | A |
| Saving his fellows Deeds are all his flower | I |
| He lives he toils he suffers and he dies | A |
| And if not vainly spent this is his dower | J |
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| The Soldier is the Martyr of a nation | K |
| Expresses but is subject to its will | F |
| His is the Pride ennobles Resignation | K |
| As his the rebel Spirit to fulfil | F |
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| Anonymous he takes his country's name | H |
| Becomes its blindest vassal though its lord | L |
| By force of arms its shame is called his shame | H |
| As its the glory gathered by his sword | L |
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| Lonely he is he has nor friend nor lover | I |
| Sith in his body he is dedicate | M |
| His comrades only share his life and offer | I |
| Their further deeds to one more heart oblate | M |
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| Living lie's made an 'Argument Beyond' | M |
| For others' peace but when hot wars have birth | N |
| For all his brothers' safety he is bond | M |
| To Fate or Whatsoever sways this Earth | N |
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| Dying his mangled body to inter it | M |
| He doth bequeath him into comrade hands | A |
| His soul he renders to some Captain Spirit | M |
| That knows admires pities and understands | A |
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| All this you knew by that which doth reside | M |
| Deeper than learning by apprehension | K |
| Of ancient dark and melancholy pride | M |
| You were a Soldier true and died as one | K |
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| All day the long wind cries the clouds unroll | F |
| But to the cloud and wind I cry 'Be still ' | - |
| What need of comfort has the heroic soul | F |
| What soldier finds a soldier's grave is chill | F |
Robert Nichols
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