Sheridan's Last Ride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBD EEBFBF GGHBHB AACICJ KKBLBL JJMAMA FFBDBD| While Phoebus lent his hottest rays | A |
| To signalize midsummer days | A |
| I stood in that far famed enclosure | B |
| By thousands visited | C |
| Where in the stillness of reposure | B |
| Are grouped battalions dead | D |
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| Where round each simple burial stone | E |
| The grass for decades twain has grown | E |
| Protecting them in dreamless slumber | B |
| Who perished long ago | F |
| The multitudes defying number | B |
| A part of war's tableau | F |
| - | |
| Along the winding avenue | G |
| A vast procession came in view | G |
| The mourners' slow advancing column | H |
| With reverent step drew near | B |
| The Dead March playing sad and solemn | H |
| Above a soldier's bier | B |
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| There were the colonels brigadiers | A |
| Comrades in arms of other years | A |
| Civilians true and loyal hearted | C |
| To him their bravest man | I |
| Who seemed to say to those departed | C |
| Make room for Sheridan | J |
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| Anon beside the new made mound | K |
| The warworn veterans gathered round | K |
| And spake of Lyon and of Lander | B |
| And others ranked as high | L |
| Recalling each his old commander | B |
| One not afraid to die | L |
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| Thus silent tenants one by one | J |
| Are crowding in at Arlington | J |
| Thus Sheridan the horseman daring | M |
| Has joined the honored corps | A |
| Of those their true insignia wearing | M |
| Who battle nevermore | A |
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| Potomac's wave shall placid flow | F |
| And sing his requiem soft and low | F |
| His terrace grave be sweet with clover | B |
| And daisies star his bed | D |
| For Sheridan's last ride is over | B |
| The General is dead | D |
Hattie Howard
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