The Charge Of The Mule Brigade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEECE EEEFFFCE GGGEHHCE IIIEEEJEEIE GGGEEEEKGE EEEEEE| Half a mile half a mile | A |
| Half a mile onward | B |
| Right through the Georgia troops | C |
| Broke the two hundred | D |
| 'Forward the Mule Brigade | E |
| Charge for the Rebs ' they neighed | E |
| Straight for the Georgia troops | C |
| Broke the two hundred | E |
| - | |
| 'Forward the Mule Brigade ' | - |
| Was there a mule dismayed | E |
| Not when their long ears felt | E |
| All their ropes sundered | E |
| Theirs not to make reply | F |
| Theirs not to reason why | F |
| Theirs but to make Rebs fly | F |
| On to the Georgia troops | C |
| Broke the two hundred | E |
| - | |
| Mules to the right of them | G |
| Mules to the left of them | G |
| Mules behind them | G |
| Pawed neighed and thundered | E |
| Breaking their own confines | H |
| Breaking through Longstreet's lines | H |
| Into the Georgia troops | C |
| Stormed the two hundred | E |
| - | |
| Wild all their eyes did glare | I |
| Whisked all their tails in air | I |
| Scattering the chivalry there | I |
| While all the world wondered | E |
| Not a mule back bestraddled | E |
| Yet how they all skedaddled | E |
| Fled every Georgian | J |
| Unsabred unsaddled | E |
| Scattered and sundered | E |
| How they were routed there | I |
| By the two hundred | E |
| - | |
| Mules to the right of them | G |
| Mules to the left of them | G |
| Mules behind them | G |
| Pawed neighed and thundered | E |
| Followed by hoof and head | E |
| Full many a hero fled | E |
| Fain in the last ditch dead | E |
| Back from an ass's jaw | K |
| All that was left of them | G |
| Left by the two hundred | E |
| - | |
| When can their glory fade | E |
| Oh what a wild charge they made | E |
| All the world wondered | E |
| Honor the charge they made | E |
| Honor the Mule Brigade | E |
| Long eared two hundred | E |
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