Chillanwallah Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJIJ AAKAKLKL AMAMNLNL AMHMOPOP ALOLQLQL| Chillanwallah Chillanwallah | A |
| Where our brothers fought and bled | B |
| O thy name is natural music | C |
| And a dirge above the dead | B |
| Though we have not been defeated | D |
| Though we can't be overcome | E |
| Still whene'er thou art repeated | F |
| I would fain that grief were dumb | E |
| - | |
| Chillianwallah Chillianwallah | A |
| 'Tis a name so sad and strange | G |
| Like a breeze through midnight harpstrings | H |
| Ringing many a mournful change | G |
| But the wildness and the sorrow | I |
| Have a meaning of their own | J |
| Oh whereof no glad to morrow | I |
| Can relieve the dismal tone | J |
| - | |
| Chillianwallah Chillianwallah | A |
| 'Tis a village dark and low | A |
| By the bloody Jhelum river | K |
| Bridged by the foreboding foe | A |
| And across the wintry water | K |
| He is ready to retreat | L |
| When the carnage and the slaughter | K |
| Shall have paid for his defeat | L |
| - | |
| Chillianwallah Chillianwallah | A |
| 'Tis a wild and dreary plain | M |
| Strewn with plots of thickest jungle | A |
| Matted with the gory stain | M |
| There the murder mouthed artillery | N |
| In the deadly ambuscade | L |
| Wrought the thunder of its treachery | N |
| On the skeleton brigade | L |
| - | |
| Chillianwallah Chillianwallah | A |
| When the night set in with rain | M |
| Came the savage plundering devils | H |
| To their work among the slain | M |
| And the wounded and the dying | O |
| In cold blood did share the doom | P |
| Of their comrades round them lying | O |
| Stiff in the dead skyless gloom | P |
| - | |
| Chillianwallah Chillianwallah | A |
| Thou wilt be a doleful chord | L |
| And a mystic note of mourning | O |
| That will need no chiming word | L |
| And that heart will leap with anguish | Q |
| Who may understand thee best | L |
| But the hopes of all will languish | Q |
| Till thy memory is at rest | L |
George Meredith
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