The Unfallen Brave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGH IIJEEJ KKLMML| Not all in sorrow and in tears | A |
| To pay of gratitude's arrears | B |
| The yearly sum | C |
| Not prompted wholly by the pride | D |
| Of those for whom their friends have died | D |
| To day we come | C |
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| Another aim we have in view | E |
| Than for the buried boys in blue | E |
| To dropp a tear | F |
| Memorial Day revives the chin | G |
| Of Barnes and Salomon chimes in | G |
| That's why we're here | H |
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| And when in after ages they | I |
| Shall pass like mortal men away | I |
| Their war song sung | J |
| Then fame will tell the tale anew | E |
| Of how intrepidly they drew | E |
| The deadly tongue | J |
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| Then cull white lilies for the graves | K |
| Of Liberty's loquacious braves | K |
| And roses red | L |
| Those represent their livers these | M |
| The blood that in unmeasured seas | M |
| They did not shed | L |
Ambrose Bierce
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