The Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDDEEFGF HHHHIIIJJKL KKDDMMHNOPPQQRRSSDDT TKL UUVVWWXXWYYTTKL VHVHZOOZTTA2A2KLHeavy and solemn | A |
A cloudy column | A |
Through the green plain they marching came | B |
Measure less spread like a table dread | C |
For the wild grim dice of the iron game | B |
The looks are bent on the shaking ground | D |
And the heart beats loud with a knelling sound | D |
Swift by the breasts that must bear the brunt | E |
Gallops the major along the front | E |
Halt | F |
And fettered they stand at the stark command | G |
And the warriors silent halt | F |
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Proud in the blush of morning glowing | H |
What on the hill top shines in flowing | H |
See you the foeman's banners waving | H |
We see the foeman's banners waving | H |
God be with ye children and wife | I |
Hark to the music the trump and the fife | I |
How they ring through the ranks which they rouse to the strife | I |
Thrilling they sound with their glorious tone | J |
Thrilling they go through the marrow and bone | J |
Brothers God grant when this life is o'er | K |
In the life to come that we meet once more | L |
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See the smoke how the lightning is cleaving asunder | K |
Hark the guns peal on peal how they boom in their thunder | K |
From host to host with kindling sound | D |
The shouting signal circles round | D |
Ay shout it forth to life or death | M |
Freer already breathes the breath | M |
The war is waging slaughter raging | H |
And heavy through the reeking pall | N |
The iron death dice fall | O |
Nearer they close foes upon foes | P |
Ready From square to square it goes | P |
Down on the knee they sank | Q |
And fire comes sharp from the foremost rank | Q |
Many a man to the earth it sent | R |
Many a gap by the balls is rent | R |
O'er the corpse before springs the hinder man | S |
That the line may not fail to the fearless van | S |
To the right to the left and around and around | D |
Death whirls in its dance on the bloody ground | D |
God's sunlight is quenched in the fiery fight | T |
Over the hosts falls a brooding night | T |
Brothers God grant when this life is o'er | K |
In the life to come that we meet once more | L |
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The dead men lie bathed in the weltering blood | U |
And the living are blent in the slippery flood | U |
And the feet as they reeling and sliding go | V |
Stumble still on the corpses that sleep below | V |
What Francis Give Charlotte my last farewell | W |
As the dying man murmurs the thunders swell | W |
I'll give Oh God are their guns so near | X |
Ho comrades yon volley look sharp to the rear | X |
I'll give thy Charlotte thy last farewell | W |
Sleep soft where death thickest descendeth in rain | Y |
The friend thou forsakest thy side shall regain | Y |
Hitherward thitherward reels the fight | T |
Dark and more darkly day glooms into night | T |
Brothers God grant when this life is o'er | K |
In the life to come that we meet once more | L |
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Hark to the hoofs that galloping go | V |
The adjutant flying | H |
The horsemen press hard on the panting foe | V |
Their thunder booms in dying | H |
Victory | Z |
The terror has seized on the dastards all | O |
And their colors fall | O |
Victory | Z |
Closed is the brunt of the glorious fight | T |
And the day like a conqueror bursts on the night | T |
Trumpet and fife swelling choral along | A2 |
The triumph already sweeps marching in song | A2 |
Farewell fallen brothers though this life be o'er | K |
There's another in which we shall meet you once more | L |
Friedrich Schiller
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