Charge Of Fremont's Body-guard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCCCCCCEECF GGGGEDEDHHIICIIC JJJHHCCCGKGD HCHHHCLLDMMCNNNC KOODHHCCCCPPPQRRCCCL CC CCDCCSSSGGGSHHHFD CCCCCCCDCCCCDDDDCCCC CCCCCCCCCTCUUC

On they ride on they rideA
Only three hundredB
Ride the brave Body GuardC
From the Prairie Scouts sunderedC
Two thousand riflemenD
Ambushed on either sideC
The signal of slaughter bideC
Ho has the farmer guideC
Led them astray and liedC
How can they pass the woodC
On they ride on they rideC
Fearlessly readilyE
Silently steadilyE
Ride the brave Body GuardC
Led by ZagonyiF
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Up leap the Southrons thereG
Loud breaks the battle blareG
Now swings his hat in airG
Flashes his saber bareG
Draw sabers follow meE
Shouts the brave CaptainD
Union and LibertyE
Thunders the CaptainD
Three hundred sabers flashH
Three hundred Guardsmen dashH
On to the fierce attackI
Into the cul de sacI
Plunge the Three HundredC
Yell the mad ambushed packI
Two thousand rifles crackI
At the Three HundredC
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Dire is the death they dealJ
Gleams the steel volleys pealJ
Horses plunge riders reelJ
Sabers and bayonets clashH
Guns in their faces flashH
Blue coats are spattered redC
Fifty brave Guards are deadC
Zagonyi is still aheadC
Swinging his hat in airG
Flashing his saberK
Steady men steady thereG
Forward BattalionD
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On they plunge on they dashH
Thro' the dread gantletC
Death gurgles in the gashH
Of furious dealt saber slashH
Over them the volleys crashH
Thro' the trees like a whirlwindC
They pass through the fire of deathL
Pant riders and steeds for breathL
Halt cried the CaptainD
Then he looked up the hillM
There on the summit stillM
The Third Company palteredC
Right through the fire of hellN
Where fifty brave Guardsmen fellN
Zagonyi had ridden wellN
Foley had falteredC
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Flashed like a flame of fireK
Flashed with a menace direO
Flashed with a yell of ireO
The sword of the CaptainD
Kennedy saw the flashH
And ordered the Third to dashH
Gallantly forwardC
Come on Boys for LibertyC
Forward and follow meC
Remember KentuckyC
Into the hell they brokeP
Into the fire and smokeP
Dealing swift saber strokeP
The gallant KentuckiansQ
Horses plungeR
Riders lungeR
Heavily forwardC
Over the fallen they rideC
Down to Zagonyi's sideC
Mowing a swath of deathL
Either side right and leftC
Piling the slaughteredC
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Under the storm of leadC
Still hissing overheadC
They re formed the battle lineD
Then the brave Captain saidC
Guardsmen avenge our deadC
Charge Up the hill they goS
Right into the swarming foeS
Woe to the foemen woeS
See mad Zagonyi thereG
Streams on the wind his hairG
Flashes his saber bareG
On they go on they goS
Volleys flashH
Sabers clashH
On they plunge on they dashH
Following ZagonyiF
Into the hell againD
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Hand to hand fight and dieC
Infantry cavalryC
Grappled and mixed they lieC
Infantry cavalryC
Hurra the Rebels flyC
Bravo Three HundredC
Forward and follow meC
Shouted the CaptainD
Union and LibertyC
All the Guards thunderedC
With mad hearts and sabers stoutC
Into the Rebel routC
Gallop the GuardsmenD
Thundering their cry againD
Cleaving their foes in twainD
Piling the heaps of slainD
Sabered and sunderedC
Three hundred foes they slayedC
Glorious the charge they madeC
Victorious the charge they madeC
The gallant Three HundredC
Let the Crown Poet paidC
Sing of the Light BrigadeC
And The wild charge they madeC
When Some one had blunderedC
Following the British BardC
I sing of the Body GuardC
The Heroes that fought so hardC
Where nobody blunderedC
Hail brave Zagonyi hailT
All hail the Body GuardC
The gloriousU
The victoriousU
The invincible Three HundredC

Hanford Lennox Gordon



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