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The Snow At Fredericksburg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADDD DDEDFGDG DBHBIJAJ KLMLNDDD DOKODDDD

Drift over the sunrise landA
Oh wonderful wonderful snowB
Oh pure as the breast of a virgin saintC
Drift tenderly soft and slowB
Over the slopes of the sunrise landA
And into the haunted dellsD
Of the forest of pine where the roving windsD
Are tuning their memory bellsD
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Into the forests of sighing pinesD
And over those yellow slopesD
That show not the work of the cleaving plowE
But cover so many hopesD
They are many indeed and straightly madeF
Not shapen with loving careG
By the souls let out and the broken bladesD
May never be counted thereG
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Fall over those lonely hero gravesD
Oh delicate dropping snowB
Like the blessing of God's unfaltering loveH
On the warrior heads belowB
Like the tender sigh of a mother's soulI
As she waiteth and watcheth for OneJ
Who will never come back from the sunrise landA
When this terrible war is doneJ
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And here where lieth the high of heartK
Drift white as the bridal veilL
That will never be borne by the drooping girlM
Who waiteth afar so paleL
Fall that as the tears of the suffering wifeN
Who stretcheth despairing handsD
Out to the blood rich battlefieldsD
That crimson the Eastern sandsD
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Fall in thy virgin tendernessD
Oh delicate snow and coverO
The graves of our heroes sanctifiedK
Husband and son and loverO
Drift tenderly over those yellow slopesD
And mellow our deep distressD
And put us in mind of the shriven soulsD
And their mantles of righteousnessD

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