Death Of Gen. Jackson - An Eulogy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI CJGJ BABA KLKC ABAB| Hark from the mighty Hero's tomb | A |
| I hear a voice proclaim | B |
| A sound which fills the world with gloom | A |
| But magnifies his name | B |
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| His flight from time let braves deplore | C |
| And wail from state to state | D |
| And sound abroad from shore to shore | C |
| The death of one so great | D |
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| He scorn'd to live a captured slave | E |
| And fought his passage through | F |
| He dies the prince of all the brave | E |
| And bids the world adieu | F |
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| Sing to the mem'ry of his power | G |
| Ye vagrant mountaineers | H |
| Ye rustic peasants drop a shower | G |
| Of love for him in tears | I |
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| He wields the glittering sword no more | C |
| With that transpiercing eye | J |
| Ceases to roam the mountain o'er | G |
| And gets him down to die | J |
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| Still let the nation spread his fame | B |
| While marching from his tomb | A |
| Aloud let all the world proclaim | B |
| Jackson forever bloom | A |
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| No longer to the world confin'd | K |
| He goes down like a star | L |
| He sets and leaves his friends behind | K |
| To rein the steed of war | C |
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| Hark from the mighty Hero's tomb | A |
| I hear a voice proclaim | B |
| A sound which fills the world with gloom | A |
| But magnifies his name | B |
George Moses Horton
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