Requiescat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEE FGFHEE IJIJEE KLMLEE| Mrs Jefferson Davis widow of the President of the Southern Confederacy died October | A |
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| Oh weep fair South and bow thy head | B |
| For one is gone beyond recall | C |
| Cast flowers on the sainted dead | B |
| Who sleeps beneath a funeral pall | D |
| To the sound of muffled drum | E |
| To the sound of muffled drum | E |
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| She saw a noble husband's fame | F |
| Grow more enduring with the years | G |
| And in the land his honored name | F |
| Loom brighter through a mist of tears | H |
| But the sound of muffled drum | E |
| O the sound of muffled drum | E |
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| Our fate is but to meet and part | I |
| Upon Life's dark and troubled sea | J |
| Yet recollection stirs the heart | I |
| Of men in gray who used to be | J |
| But the sound of muffled drum | E |
| O the sound of muffled drum | E |
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| Brave South 'tis but a moment's pause | K |
| E'er on that dim and distant shore | L |
| The heroes of thy Fallen Cause | M |
| Will meet again to part no more | L |
| To the sound of muffled drum | E |
| To the sound of muffled drum | E |
Edwin C. Ranck
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