After The Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KK| MY father hero of benignant mien | A |
| On horseback visited the gory scene | A |
| After the battle as the evening fell | B |
| And took with him a trooper loved right well | B |
| Because of bravery and presence bold | C |
| The field was covered with the dead all cold | C |
| And shades of night were deepening came a sound | D |
| Feeble and hoarse from something on the ground | D |
| It was a Spaniard of the vanquished force | E |
| Who dragged himself with pain beside their course | E |
| Wounded and bleeding livid and half dead | F |
| 'Give me to drink in pity drink ' he said | F |
| My father touched stretched to his follower now | G |
| A flask of rum that from his saddle bow | G |
| Hung down 'The poor soul give him drink ' said he | H |
| But while the trooper prompt obediently | H |
| Stooped towards the other he of Moorish race | I |
| Pointed a pistol at my father's face | I |
| And with a savage oath the trigger drew | J |
| The hat flew off a bullet passing through | J |
| As swerved his charger in a backward stride | K |
| 'Give him to drink the same ' my father cried | K |
Victor Marie Hugo
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