Confederate Memorial Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEFE HIJK LMNM| The marching armies of the past | A |
| Along our Southern plains | B |
| Are sleeping now in quiet rest | C |
| Beneath the Southern rains | B |
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| The bugle call is now in vain | D |
| To rouse them from their bed | E |
| To arms they'll never march again | F |
| They are sleeping with the dead | E |
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| No more will Shiloh's plains be stained | G |
| With blood our heroes shed | E |
| Nor Chancellorsville resound again | F |
| To our noble warriors' tread | E |
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| For them no more shall reveille | H |
| Sound at the break of dawn | I |
| But may their sleep peaceful be | J |
| Till God's great judgment morn | K |
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| We bow our heads in solemn prayer | L |
| For those who wore the gray | M |
| And clasp again their unseen hands | N |
| On our Memorial Day | M |
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