The Reveille Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBB DBEBBBB DBFBBBB GBBBBBB HBHBBBB| Hark I hear the tramp of thousands | A |
| And of armed men the hum | B |
| Lo a nation's hosts have gathered | C |
| Round the quick alarming drum | B |
| Saying Come | B |
| Freemen come | B |
| Ere your heritage be wasted said the quick alarming drum | B |
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| Let me of my heart take counsel | D |
| War is not of life the sum | B |
| Who shall stay and reap the harvest | E |
| When the autumn days shall come | B |
| But the drum | B |
| Echoed Come | B |
| Death shall reap the braver harvest said the solemn sounding drum | B |
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| But when won the coming battle | D |
| What of profit springs therefrom | B |
| What if conquest subjugation | F |
| Even greater ills become | B |
| But the drum | B |
| Answered Come | B |
| You must do the sum to prove it said the Yankee answering drum | B |
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| What if 'mid the cannons' thunder | G |
| Whistling shot and bursting bomb | B |
| When my brothers fall around me | B |
| Should my heart grow cold and numb | B |
| But the drum | B |
| Answered Come | B |
| Better there in death united than in life a recreant Come | B |
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| Thus they answered hoping fearing | H |
| Some in faith and doubting some | B |
| Till a trumpet voice proclaiming | H |
| Said My chosen people come | B |
| Then the drum | B |
| Lo was dumb | B |
| For the great heart of the nation throbbing answered Lord we come | B |
Bret Harte
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