Captain Orlando Killion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFAGCCHIHCEAEJE C| Oh you young radicals and dreamers | A |
| You dauntless fledglings | A |
| Who pass by my headstone | B |
| Mock not its record of my captaincy in the army | C |
| And my faith in God | D |
| They are not denials of each other | E |
| Go by reverently and read with sober care | F |
| How a great people riding with defiant shouts | A |
| The centaur of Revolution | G |
| Spurred and whipped to frenzy | C |
| Shook with terror seeing the mist of the sea | C |
| Over the precipice they were nearing | H |
| And fell from his back in precipitate awe | I |
| To celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being | H |
| Moved by the same sense of vast reality | C |
| Of life and death and burdened as they were | E |
| With the fate of a race | A |
| How was I a little blasphemer | E |
| Caught in the drift of a nation's unloosened flood | J |
| To remain a blasphemer | E |
| And a captain in the army | C |
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