Memorial Day -1892 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDED FGAG HIJJ JKHK LKAK JDAD DMNM LKJK| The quiet graves of our country's braves | A |
| Through thirty Junes and Decembers | A |
| Have solemnly lain under sun and rain | B |
| And yet the Nation remembers | A |
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| The marching of feet and the flags on the street | C |
| Told once again this morning | D |
| In the voice of the drum how the day had come | E |
| For those lowly beds' adorning | D |
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| Then swiftly back on Time's worn track | F |
| His three decades seemed driven | G |
| And with startled eyes I saw arise | A |
| From graves by fancy riven | G |
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| The Gray and Blue in a grand review | H |
| Oh vast were the hosts they numbered | I |
| As they wheeled and swayed in a dress parade | J |
| O'er the graves where they long had slumbered | J |
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| The colours were not as when they fought | J |
| Ranked one against the other | K |
| But a mingled hue of gray and blue | H |
| As brother marching with brother | K |
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| And a blue flower lay on each coat of gray | L |
| Like forget me nots on a boulder | K |
| And the gray moss lace in its Southern grace | A |
| Was knotted on each blue shoulder | K |
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| The vision fled but I think our dead | J |
| If they could come back with the living | D |
| Would clasp warm hands o'er hostile lands | A |
| Forgetting old wrongs and forgiving | D |
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| 'Mong the blossoms of Spring that you gather and bring | D |
| To graves that though lowly are royal | M |
| Let the blue flower prevail though modest and pale | N |
| Since it speaks of the hue that was loyal | M |
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| But tie each bouquet with a ribbon of gray | L |
| And lay it on memory's altar | K |
| For the dead who fought for the cause they thought | J |
| Was right and who did not falter | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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