See The Field Of Battle Gleams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGEHHE IIJCCJ BBHKKH LLBMMB HHNLLN| See the field of battle gleams | A |
| Yonward past the tented streams | A |
| There the foe is camping | B |
| By the thirst assuaging rill | C |
| From the copse behind the hill | C |
| Hear his war steeds champing | B |
| - | |
| Northern Knights and Southern Sons | D |
| Onward to the gleaming guns | D |
| Now's the hour of battle | E |
| Though his files be ten to one | F |
| Seek the foe from sun to sun | F |
| Where his muskets rattle | E |
| - | |
| O'er the walls with slaughter wet | G |
| O'er the ball scarred parapet | G |
| Daring man and missile | E |
| Charge to meet his best or worst | H |
| Where his shrieking bombshells burst | H |
| And his bullets whistle | E |
| - | |
| Roll in waves of living blue | I |
| Pierce the columned centre through | I |
| Fill the world with wonder | J |
| Rush as with a lion's will | C |
| Where his lightnings flash to kill | C |
| And his cannon thunder | J |
| - | |
| Meet him with a tiger's spring | B |
| Quicker than an eagle's wing | B |
| Where the bayonet piercest | H |
| When you feel the foeman's breath | K |
| Soldier strike for life or death | K |
| Where the fight is fiercest | H |
| - | |
| Than a coward proved and known | L |
| Better be to atoms blown | L |
| Where the doomed are dying | B |
| Welcome death in wildest way | M |
| But to mingle with that clay | M |
| Where the brave are lying | B |
| - | |
| Thus will Honor be our meed | H |
| For some doubly daring deed | H |
| When we end our story | N |
| Then in graves with roses blown | L |
| By the hands of patriots strown | L |
| We will sleep in glory | N |
A. H. Laidlaw
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