A Million More Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBDDEE FGHHIIEE JJAAGFEE KKIILLEM N| AUGUST | A |
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| The nation calls aloud again | B |
| For Freedom wounded writhes in pain | C |
| Gird on your armor Northern men | B |
| Drop scythe and sickle square and pen | B |
| A million bayonets gleam and flash | D |
| A thousand cannon peal and crash | D |
| Brothers and sons have gone before | E |
| A million more a million more | E |
| - | |
| Fire and sword aye sword and fire | F |
| Let war be fierce and grim and dire | G |
| Your path be marked by flame and smoke | H |
| And tyrant's bones and fetters broke | H |
| Stay not for foe's uplifted hand | I |
| Sheathe not the sword quench not the brand | I |
| Till Freedom reign from shore to shore | E |
| Or might 'mid ashes smoke and gore | E |
| - | |
| If leader stay the vengeance rod | J |
| Let him beware the wrath of God | J |
| The maddened millions long his trust | A |
| Will crush his puny bones to dust | A |
| And all the law to guide their ire | G |
| Will be the law of blood and fire | F |
| Come then the shattered ranks implore | E |
| A million more a million more | E |
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| Form and file and file and form | K |
| This war is but God's thunder storm | K |
| To purify our cankered land | I |
| And strike the fetter from the hand | I |
| Forced by grim fate our Chief at last | L |
| Shall blow dear Freedom's bugle blast | L |
| And then shall rise from shore to shore | E |
| Four millions more four millions more CS | M |
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| CS There were four millions of slaves in the South when the war began | N |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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