Custer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH CICI| Foiled on the field with his dead boys around him | A |
| All waiting for Earth to recover her own | B |
| Fortune hath missed him but Glory hath found him | A |
| While fighting a thousand fierce foemen alone | B |
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| Custer's the right wing the left and the center | C |
| Himself is his only reserve and supply | D |
| This is a battle for Spartans to enter | C |
| Where One makes an army to conquer or die | D |
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| Straight on his steed doth he meet the grim battle | E |
| The red line of danger grows deadly and large | F |
| Loud from the hills rings the rifleman's rattle | E |
| But Custer is ready so forward and charge | F |
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| Firing with left hand and fencing with right | G |
| The reins in his teeth like a handless young Hun | H |
| What is his fate in the terrible fight | G |
| The thousands hath slain him yet Custer hath won | H |
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| His foemen still seek him in terror and wonder | C |
| Alive in the tempest that darkens the vale | I |
| His charge they still fear in the echoing thunder | C |
| His sword in the lightning his voice in the gale | I |
A. H. Laidlaw
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