At General Grant's Tomb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB AAAAAA CACACA DEDEDE AFAFAF GAHAHA| Afar my loyal spirit stirred | A |
| At mention of his name | B |
| Afar in ringing notes I heard | A |
| The clarion voice of fame | B |
| So to his tomb hope long deferred | A |
| With reverent step I came | B |
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| The pilgrim muse revivified | A |
| A half forgotten day | A |
| A slow procession tearful eyed | A |
| In funeral array | A |
| And from MacGregor's lonely side | A |
| A hero borne away | A |
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| Here sleeps he now where long ago | C |
| Hath nature raised his mound | A |
| A mighty channel far below | C |
| Divided hills around | A |
| Where countless thousands come and go | C |
| As to a shrine renowned | A |
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| With awe do strangers' eyes discern | D |
| A casket mid the green | E |
| Luxuriance of flower and fern | D |
| Airy and cool and clean | E |
| Unchanged from spring to spring's return | D |
| This charnel chamber scene | E |
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| His country's weal his care and thought | A |
| Beloved in peace was he | F |
| Magnanimous in war shall not | A |
| The nation grateful be | F |
| And render at his burial spot | A |
| A testimonial free | F |
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| Oh let us ere the days come on | G |
| When energy is spent | A |
| To him the silent soldier gone | H |
| Statesman and President | A |
| On Riverside's majestic lawn | H |
| Uprear a monument | A |
Hattie Howard
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