Battle Of Belleau Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GHAA II JJKKLL| IT was thick with Prussian troopers it was foul with German guns | A |
| Every tree that cast a shadow was a sheltering place for Huns | A |
| Death was guarding every roadway death was watching every field | B |
| And behind each rise of terrain was a rapid fire concealed | B |
| But Uncle Sam's Marines had orders 'Drive the Boche from where they're hid | C |
| For the honor of Old Glory take the woods ' and so they did | C |
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| I fancy none will tell it as the story should be told | D |
| None will ever do full justice to those Yankee troopers bold | D |
| How they crawled upon their stomachs through the fields of golden wheat | E |
| With the bullets spitting at them in that awful battle heat | E |
| It's a tale too big for writing it's beyond the voice or pen | F |
| But it glows among the splendor of the bravest deeds men | F |
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| It's recorded as a battle but I fancy it will live | G |
| As the brightest gem of courage human struggles have to give | H |
| Inch by inch they crawled to victory toward the flaming mounts of guns | A |
| Inch by inch they crawled to grapple with the barricaded Huns | A |
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| On through fields that death was sweeping with a murderous fire they went | I |
| Till the Teuton line was vanquished and the German strength was spent | I |
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| Ebbed and flowed the tides of battle as they've seldom done before | J |
| Slowly surely moved the Yankees against all the odds of war | J |
| For the honor of the fallen for the glory of the dead | K |
| The living line of courage kept the faith and moved ahead | K |
| 'They'd been ordered not to falter and when night came on they stood | L |
| With Old Glory proudly flying o'er the trees of Belleau Wood | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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