Cleburne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH HICC JJDD| Another ray of light hath fled another Southern brave | A |
| Hath fallen in his country's cause and found a laureled grave | A |
| Hath fallen but his deathless name shall live when stars shall set | B |
| For noble Cleburne thou art one this world will ne'er forget | B |
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| 'Tis true thy warm heart beats no more that on thy noble head | C |
| Azrael placed his icy hand and thou art with the dead | C |
| The glancing of thine eyes are dim no more will they be bright | D |
| Until they ope in Paradise with clearer heavenlier light | D |
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| No battle news disturbs thy rest upon the sun bright shore | E |
| No clarion voice awakens thee on earth to wrestle more | E |
| No tramping steed no wary foe bids thee awake arise | F |
| For thou art in the angel world beyond the starry skies | F |
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| Brave Cleburne dream in thy low bed with pulseless deadened heart | G |
| Calm calm and sweet O warrior rest thou well hast borne thy part | G |
| And now a glory wreath for thee the angels singing twine | H |
| A glory wreath not of the earth but made by hands divine | H |
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| A long farewell we give thee up with all thy bright reknown | H |
| A chieftain here on earth is lost in heaven an angel found | I |
| Above thy grave a wail is heard a nation mourns her dead | C |
| A nobler for the South ne'er died a braver never bled | C |
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| A last farewell how can we speak the bitter word farewell | J |
| The anguish of our bleeding hearts vain words may never tell | J |
| Sleep on sleep on to God we give our chieftain in his might | D |
| And weeping feel he lives on high where comes no sorrow's night | D |
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