Soldier, Wake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGEHIIEE JJFFKLIIEE| Soldier wake the day is peeping | A |
| Honour ne'er was won in sleeping | A |
| Never when the sunbeams still | B |
| Lay unreflected on the hill | B |
| 'Tis when they are glinted back | C |
| From axe and armour spear and jack | C |
| That they promise future story | D |
| Many a page of deathless glory | D |
| Shields that are the foe man's terror | E |
| Ever are the morning's mirror | E |
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| Arm and up the morning beam | F |
| Hath call'd the rustic to his team | F |
| Hath call'd the falc'ner to the lake | G |
| Hath call'd the huntsman to the brake | G |
| The early student ponders o'er | E |
| His dusty tomes of ancient lore | H |
| Soldier wake thy harvest fame | I |
| Thy study conquest war thy game | I |
| Shield that would be foeman's terror | E |
| Still should gleam the morning's mirror | E |
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| Poor hire repays the rustic's pain | J |
| More paltry still the sportsman's gain | J |
| Vainest of all the student's theme | F |
| End in gome metaphysic dream | F |
| Yet each is up and each has toil'd | K |
| Since first the peep of dawn has smiled | L |
| And each is eagerer in his aim | I |
| Than he who barters life for fame | I |
| Up up and arm thee son of terror | E |
| Be thy bright shield the morning's mirror | E |
Sir Walter Scott
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