Battle Bunny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA CCDEEDDFF GGHHII JJKKLLMNMNOODD PPAAQQRRSS TUTURVRVWW PPXXYY ZZA2A2| Malvern Hill | A |
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| After the men were ordered to lie down a white rabbit which had been hopping hither and thither over the field swept by grape and musketry took refuge among the skirmishers in the breast of a corporal | B |
| Report of the Battle of Malvern Hill | A |
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| Bunny lying in the grass | C |
| Saw the shining column pass | C |
| Saw the starry banner fly | D |
| Saw the chargers fret and fume | E |
| Saw the flapping hat and plume | E |
| Saw them with his moist and shy | D |
| Most unspeculative eye | D |
| Thinking only in the dew | F |
| That it was a fine review | F |
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| Till a flash not all of steel | G |
| Where the rolling caissons wheel | G |
| Brought a rumble and a roar | H |
| Rolling down that velvet floor | H |
| And like blows of autumn flail | I |
| Sharply threshed the iron hail | I |
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| Bunny thrilled by unknown fears | J |
| Raised his soft and pointed ears | J |
| Mumbled his prehensile lip | K |
| Quivered his pulsating hip | K |
| As the sharp vindictive yell | L |
| Rose above the screaming shell | L |
| Thought the world and all its men | M |
| All the charging squadrons meant | N |
| All were rabbit hunters then | M |
| All to capture him intent | N |
| Bunny was not much to blame | O |
| Wiser folk have thought the same | O |
| Wiser folk who think they spy | D |
| Every ill begins with I | D |
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| Wildly panting here and there | P |
| Bunny sought the freer air | P |
| Till he hopped below the hill | A |
| And saw lying close and still | A |
| Men with muskets in their hands | Q |
| Never Bunny understands | Q |
| That hypocrisy of sleep | R |
| In the vigils grim they keep | R |
| As recumbent on that spot | S |
| They elude the level shot | S |
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| One a grave and quiet man | T |
| Thinking of his wife and child | U |
| Far beyond the Rapidan | T |
| Where the Androscoggin smiled | U |
| Felt the little rabbit creep | R |
| Nestling by his arm and side | V |
| Wakened from strategic sleep | R |
| To that soft appeal replied | V |
| Drew him to his blackened breast | W |
| And But you have guessed the rest | W |
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| Softly o'er that chosen pair | P |
| Omnipresent Love and Care | P |
| Drew a mightier Hand and Arm | X |
| Shielding them from every harm | X |
| Right and left the bullets waved | Y |
| Saved the saviour for the saved | Y |
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| Who believes that equal grace | Z |
| God extends in every place | Z |
| Little difference he scans | A2 |
| 'Twixt a rabbit's God and man's | A2 |
Bret Harte (francis)
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