Perryville Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFGGHIJJ KKHHLLJJ MMNNJJJJ O| Fought October th | A |
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| Here on this spot where Nature now with chilling icy breath | B |
| Has mantled in a robe of white the field of strife and death | B |
| We view in memory once again the awful scenes where met | C |
| In serried ranks the Blue and Gray and tears the lashes wet | C |
| For those who fell that dreadful day are mingled with the dust | D |
| And often here the plow upturns a bayonet red with rust | D |
| A sad memento of the time when passion held full sway | E |
| Reminder to the rustic swain of fratricidal fray | E |
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| From yonder hill the shotted guns in dreadful chorus rang | F |
| And on this plain was heard that day the glittering sabre's clang | F |
| And in that vale where wound the brook with waters murmuring | G |
| We stood and heard the Minie balls their deadly message sing | G |
| And saw the life blood gushing red from stricken comrade near | H |
| Whose gentle voice his loved ones then no more should ever hear | I |
| His blue eyes close his bosom heave his pulse forever still | J |
| A sacrifice to cause held dear on the field of Perryville | J |
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| And the swiftly circling years can ne'er erase | K |
| From Memory's tablets or from Nature's face | K |
| One spot of all the rest we're standing near | H |
| By fiercely battling hosts the prize held dear | H |
| The old spring's waters still are gurgling from the rock | L |
| Where famished soldiers knelt grim Death himself to mock | L |
| Here on that day in ghastly heaps they lay | J |
| Commingling with the Blue the men that wore the Gray | J |
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| And now the virgin snow has covered o'er the sod | M |
| Where once in fierce array contending armies trod | M |
| The wintry wind makes mournful music through the trees | N |
| Where then the clash of arms was floating on the breeze | N |
| And deep toned guns belched forth the screaming shell | J |
| Like fiendish messengers of Death let loose from hell | J |
| Now Nature's peaceful emblem spread o'er glade and hill | J |
| Enwraps beneath its folds the bloody field of Perryville | J |
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| December | O |
George W. Doneghy
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