The Sword Of Robert Lee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB CBCCCB DEDDDE FBFFFB GBGGGB HBIHHB| Forth from its scabbard pure and bright | A |
| Flashed the sword of Lee | B |
| Far in the front of the deadly fight | A |
| High o'er the brave in the cause of Right | A |
| Its stainless sheen like a beacon light | A |
| Led us to Victory | B |
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| Out of its scabbard where full long | C |
| It slumbered peacefully | B |
| Roused from its rest by the battle's song | C |
| Shielding the feeble smiting the strong | C |
| Guarding the right avenging the wrong | C |
| Gleamed the sword of Lee | B |
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| Forth from its scabbard high in air | D |
| Beneath Virginia's sky | E |
| And they who saw it gleaming there | D |
| And knew who bore it knelt to swear | D |
| That where that sword led they would dare | D |
| To follow and to die | E |
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| Out of its scabbard Never hand | F |
| Waved sword from stain as free | B |
| Nor purer sword led braver band | F |
| Nor braver bled for a brighter land | F |
| Nor brighter land had a cause so grand | F |
| Nor cause a chief like Lee | B |
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| Forth from its scabbard How we prayed | G |
| That sword might victor be | B |
| And when our triumph was delayed | G |
| And many a heart grew sore afraid | G |
| We still hoped on while gleamed the blade | G |
| Of noble Robert Lee | B |
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| Forth from its scabbard all in vain | H |
| Bright flashed the sword of Lee | B |
| 'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again | I |
| It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain | H |
| Defeated yet without a stain | H |
| Proudly and peacefully | B |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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