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 ride | A |
| Only three hundred | B |
| Ride the brave Body Guard | C |
| From the Prairie Scouts sundered | C |
| Two thousand riflemen | D |
| Ambushed on either side | C |
| The signal of slaughter bide | C |
| Ho has the farmer guide | C |
| Led them astray and lied | C |
| How can they pass the wood | C |
| On they ride on they ride | C |
| Fearlessly readily | E |
| Silently steadily | E |
| Ride the brave Body Guard | C |
| Led by Zagonyi | F |
| - | |
| Up leap the Southrons there | G |
| Loud breaks the battle blare | G |
| Now swings his hat in air | G |
| Flashes his saber bare | G |
| Draw sabers follow me | E |
| Shouts the brave Captain | D |
| Union and Liberty | E |
| Thunders the Captain | D |
| Three hundred sabers flash | H |
| Three hundred Guardsmen dash | H |
| On to the fierce attack | I |
| Into the cul de sac | I |
| Plunge the Three Hundred | C |
| Yell the mad ambushed pack | I |
| Two thousand rifles crack | I |
| At the Three Hundred | C |
| - | |
| Dire is the death they deal | J |
| Gleams the steel volleys peal | J |
| Horses plunge riders reel | J |
| Sabers and bayonets clash | H |
| Guns in their faces flash | H |
| Blue coats are spattered red | C |
| Fifty brave Guards are dead | C |
| Zagonyi is still ahead | C |
| Swinging his hat in air | G |
| Flashing his saber | K |
| Steady men steady there | G |
| Forward Battalion | D |
| - | |
| On they plunge on they dash | H |
| Thro' the dread gantlet | C |
| Death gurgles in the gash | H |
| Of furious dealt saber slash | H |
| Over them the volleys crash | H |
| Thro' the trees like a whirlwind | C |
| They pass through the fire of death | L |
| Pant riders and steeds for breath | L |
| Halt cried the Captain | D |
| Then he looked up the hill | M |
| There on the summit still | M |
| The Third Company paltered | C |
| Right through the fire of hell | N |
| Where fifty brave Guardsmen fell | N |
| Zagonyi had ridden well | N |
| Foley had faltered | C |
| - | |
| Flashed like a flame of fire | K |
| Flashed with a menace dire | O |
| Flashed with a yell of ire | O |
| The sword of the Captain | D |
| Kennedy saw the flash | H |
| And ordered the Third to dash | H |
| Gallantly forward | C |
| Come on Boys for Liberty | C |
| Forward and follow me | C |
| Remember Kentucky | C |
| Into the hell they broke | P |
| Into the fire and smoke | P |
| Dealing swift saber stroke | P |
| The gallant Kentuckians | Q |
| Horses plunge | R |
| Riders lunge | R |
| Heavily forward | C |
| Over the fallen they ride | C |
| Down to Zagonyi's side | C |
| Mowing a swath of death | L |
| Either side right and left | C |
| Piling the slaughtered | C |
| - | |
| Under the storm of lead | C |
| Still hissing overhead | C |
| They re formed the battle line | D |
| Then the brave Captain said | C |
| Guardsmen avenge our dead | C |
| Charge Up the hill they go | S |
| Right into the swarming foe | S |
| Woe to the foemen woe | S |
| See mad Zagonyi there | G |
| Streams on the wind his hair | G |
| Flashes his saber bare | G |
| On they go on they go | S |
| Volleys flash | H |
| Sabers clash | H |
| On they plunge on they dash | H |
| Following Zagonyi | F |
| Into the hell again | D |
| - | |
| Hand to hand fight and die | C |
| Infantry cavalry | C |
| Grappled and mixed they lie | C |
| Infantry cavalry | C |
| Hurra the Rebels fly | C |
| Bravo Three Hundred | C |
| Forward and follow me | C |
| Shouted the Captain | D |
| Union and Liberty | C |
| All the Guards thundered | C |
| With mad hearts and sabers stout | C |
| Into the Rebel rout | C |
| Gallop the Guardsmen | D |
| Thundering their cry again | D |
| Cleaving their foes in twain | D |
| Piling the heaps of slain | D |
| Sabered and sundered | C |
| Three hundred foes they slayed | C |
| Glorious the charge they made | C |
| Victorious the charge they made | C |
| The gallant Three Hundred | C |
| Let the Crown Poet paid | C |
| Sing of the Light Brigade | C |
| And The wild charge they made | C |
| When Some one had blundered | C |
| Following the British Bard | C |
| I sing of the Body Guard | C |
| The Heroes that fought so hard | C |
| Where nobody blundered | C |
| Hail brave Zagonyi hail | T |
| All hail the Body Guard | C |
| The glorious | U |
| The victorious | U |
| The invincible Three Hundred | C |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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