The Soldier's Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKLK MFMF| Our bugles sang truce for the night cloud had lowered | A |
| And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky | B |
| And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered | A |
| The weary to sleep and the wounded to die | B |
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| When reposing that night on my pallet of straw | C |
| By the wolf scaring fagot that guarded the slain | D |
| At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw | C |
| And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again | E |
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| Methought from the battle field's dreadful array | F |
| Far far I had roamed on a desolate track | G |
| 'Twas autumn and sunshine arose on the way | F |
| To the home of my fathers that welcomed my back | G |
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| I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft | H |
| In life's morning march when my bosom was young | I |
| I heard my own mountain goats bleating aloft | H |
| And knew the sweet strains that the corn reapers sung | I |
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| Then pledged we the wine cup and fondly I swore | J |
| From my home and my weeping friends never to part | K |
| My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er | L |
| And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart | K |
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| Stay stay with us rest thou art weary and worn | M |
| And fain was their war broken soldier to stay | F |
| But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn | M |
| And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away | F |
Thomas Campbell
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Andy Panford: Our bugles sang truce. What does this mean
Ihsanuddin: What a lasting-forever poetry.the line"The weary to sleep,the wounded to die;is one of the golden line of the English poetry has seen so far.will the day be dawn where there be no wars?
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