Soldier, Rest! Thy Warfare O'er, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBDBACBB EBEBFGFGHEBB IJIGKBKBIIJG| Soldier rest thy warfare o'er | A |
| Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking | B |
| Dream of battled fields no more | C |
| Days of danger nights of waking | B |
| In our isle's enchanted hall | D |
| Hands unseen thy couch are strewing | B |
| Fairy strains of music fall | D |
| Every sense in slumber dewing | B |
| Soldier rest thy warfare o'er | A |
| Dream of fighting fields no more | C |
| Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking | B |
| Morn of toil nor night of waking | B |
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| No rude sound shall reach thine ear | E |
| Armour's clang or war steed champing | B |
| Trump nor pibroch summon here | E |
| Mustering clan or squadron tramping | B |
| Yet the lark's shrill fife may come | F |
| At the day break from the fallow | G |
| And the bittern sound his drum | F |
| Booming from the sedgy shallow | G |
| Ruder sounds shall none be near | H |
| Guards nor warders challenge here | E |
| Here's no war steed's neigh and champing | B |
| Shouting clans or squadrons stamping | B |
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| Huntsman rest thy chase is done | I |
| While our slumbrous spells assail ye | J |
| Dream not with the rising sun | I |
| Bugles here shall sound reveill | G |
| Sleep the deer is in his den | K |
| Sleep thy hounds are by thee lying | B |
| Sleep nor dream in yonder glen | K |
| How thy gallant steed lay dying | B |
| Huntsman rest thy chase is done | I |
| Think not of the rising sun | I |
| For at dawning to assail ye | J |
| Here no bugles sound reveill | G |
Sir Walter Scott
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