Hidden History Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF DHIH JKLK A AMNM OPQP| I | A |
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| There was a maiden in a land | B |
| Was buried with all honor fine | C |
| For they said she had dared her pulsing life | D |
| To save a silent holy shrine | C |
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| The cannon rode by the church's door | E |
| The men's wild faces flashed in the sun | F |
| The woman had guarded with rifle poised | G |
| While the cassocked priests had run | F |
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| Ah no To save her pulsing life | D |
| The woman like a reindeer turned | H |
| While hostile armies rolled by her in clouds | I |
| And miles of sun and metal burned | H |
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| But who should know For she was dead | J |
| Before the leathern curtain's wall | K |
| When came her wide eyed comrades and found | L |
| Her body and her weapon all | K |
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| II | A |
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| There was a woman left to die | A |
| Who never told her sacrifice | M |
| But trusted for her crown to God | N |
| As to its value and device | M |
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| No land was prouder for her heart | O |
| No word has echoed long her deed | P |
| And where she has lain the angel flower | Q |
| Looks like a common weed | P |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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