The Lost Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CCCC CDEF CGCH ICCC| To his heart it struck such terror | A |
| That he laughed a laugh of scorn | B |
| The man in the soldier's doublet | C |
| With the sword so bravely worn | B |
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| It struck his heart like the frost wind | C |
| To find his comrades fled | C |
| While the battle field was guarded | C |
| By the heroes who lay dead | C |
| - | |
| He drew his sword in the sunlight | C |
| And called with a long halloo | D |
| Dead men there is one living | E |
| Shall stay it out with you | F |
| - | |
| He raised a ragged standard | C |
| This lonely soul in war | G |
| And called the foe to onset | C |
| With shouts they heard afar | H |
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| They galloped swiftly toward him | I |
| The banner floated wide | C |
| It sank he sank beside it | C |
| Upon his sword and died | C |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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