One Day's Command Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DACACA AEA A FGDGEG CHIHFH GCJICIKI| The plumed staff officer gallops | A |
| Along the swaying line | B |
| That shakes as beaten by hailstones | A |
| Shakes the loaded autumn vine | B |
| And the earth beneath is reddened | C |
| But not with the stain of wine | B |
| - | |
| The regular shock of a battery | D |
| The rattling tumult stuns | A |
| And its steady thrill through the hill side | C |
| Like a pulse beneath it runs | A |
| The many are dead around it | C |
| But the few still work the guns | A |
| - | |
| 'Who commands this battery ' | - |
| And Crosby his clear young eyes | A |
| From the sliding gun sights lifting | E |
| As the well aimed death bolt flies | A |
| 'I command it today Sir ' | - |
| With a steady voice replies | A |
| - | |
| Answers as heroes answer | F |
| With modest words and few | G |
| Whose hearts and hands to duty | D |
| Even in death are true | G |
| Though its awful light is breaking | E |
| Full on their blenchless view | G |
| - | |
| The officer passes onward | C |
| With a less troubled eye | H |
| The words and the look unshaken | I |
| Bid every wild doubt fly | H |
| He knows that the young commander | F |
| Is there to do or die | H |
| - | |
| To do | G |
| and | C |
| die for the battle | J |
| And day of command are done | I |
| While stands unmoved on the hill side | C |
| Each shattered blackened gun | I |
| And Crosby in death beside them | K |
| A deathless name has won | I |
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