Two Folk Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CBCBB DEDE FGFG HBIB DJDJ K DKD DB D B CBCBB B B DLDLMM NLNLOOL OLOLPPL NLNL BBL OLOL QRL NLNL DDL BLBLSS TLTLUUL| I THE SOLDIER | A |
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| Roumanian | B |
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| When winter trees bestrew the path | C |
| Still to the twig a leaf or twain | B |
| Will cling and weep not Winter's wrath | C |
| But that foreknown forlorner pain | B |
| To fall when green leaves come again | B |
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| I watch'd him sleep by the furrow | D |
| The first that fell in the fight | E |
| His grave they would dig to morrow | D |
| The battle called them to night | E |
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| They bore him aside to the trees there | F |
| By his undigg'd grave content | G |
| To lie on his back at ease there | F |
| And hark how the battle went | G |
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| The battle went by the village | H |
| And back through the night were borne | B |
| Far cries of murder and pillage | I |
| With smoke from the standing corn | B |
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| But when they came on the morrow | D |
| They talk'd not over their task | J |
| As he listen'd there by the furrow | D |
| For the dead mouth could not ask | J |
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| How went the battle my brothers | K |
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| But that he will never know | D |
| For his mouth the red earth smothers | K |
| As they shoulder their spades and go | D |
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| Yet he cannot sleep thereunder | D |
| But ever must toss and turn | B |
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| How went the battle I wonder | D |
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| And that he will never learn | B |
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| When winter trees bestrew the path | C |
| Still to the twig a leaf or twain | B |
| Will cling and weep not Winter's wrath | C |
| But that foreknown forlorner pain | B |
| To fall when green leaves come again | B |
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| II THE MARINE | B |
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| Poitevin | B |
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| The bold Marine comes back from war | D |
| So kind | L |
| The bold Marine comes back from war | D |
| So kind | L |
| With a raggety coat and a worn out shoe | M |
| 'Now poor Marine say whence come you | M |
| All so kind ' | - |
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| I travel back from the war madame | N |
| So kind | L |
| I travel back from the war madame | N |
| So kind | L |
| For a glass of wine and a bowl of whey | O |
| 'Tis I will sing you a ballad gay | O |
| All so kind | L |
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| The bold Marine he sips his whey | O |
| So kind | L |
| He sips and he sings his ballad gay | O |
| So kind | L |
| But the dame she turns toward the wall | P |
| To wipe her tears that fall and fall | P |
| All so kind | L |
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| What aileth you at my song madame | N |
| So kind | L |
| I hope that I sing no wrong madame | N |
| So kind | L |
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| Or grieves it you a beggar should dine | B |
| On a bowl of whey and the good white wine | B |
| All so kind | L |
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| It ails me not at your ballad gay | O |
| So kind | L |
| It ails me not for the wine and whey | O |
| So kind | L |
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| But it ails me sore for the voice and eyes | Q |
| Of a good man long in Paradise | R |
| Ah so kind | L |
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| You have fair children five madame | N |
| So kind | L |
| You have fair children five madame | N |
| So kind | L |
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| Your good man left you children three | D |
| Whence came these twain for company | D |
| All so kind | L |
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| 'A letter came from the war Marine | B |
| So kind | L |
| A letter came from the war Marine | B |
| So kind | L |
| A while I wept for the good man dead | S |
| But another good man in a while I wed | S |
| All so kind ' | - |
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| The bold Marine he drained his glass | T |
| So kind | L |
| The bold Marine he drained his glass | T |
| So kind | L |
| He said not a word though the tears they flowed | U |
| But back to his regiment took the road | U |
| All so kind | L |
Sir Arthur Quiller-couch
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