Ball's Bluff Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CADEAEA FGGHGHG IJJKJKJ| A Reverie | A |
| October | B |
| - | |
| One noonday at my window in the town | C |
| I saw a sight saddest that eyes can see | A |
| Young soldiers marching lustily | D |
| Unto the wars | E |
| With fifes and flags in mottoed pageantry | A |
| While all the porches walks and doors | E |
| Were rich with ladies cheering royally | A |
| - | |
| They moved like Juny morning on the wave | F |
| Their hearts were fresh as clover in its prime | G |
| It was the breezy summer time | G |
| Life throbbed so strong | H |
| How should they dream that Death in a rosy clime | G |
| Would come to thin their shining throng | H |
| Youth feels immortal like the gods sublime | G |
| - | |
| Weeks passed and at my window leaving bed | I |
| By night I mused of easeful sleep bereft | J |
| On those 'brave boys Ah War thy theft | J |
| Some marching feet | K |
| Found pause at last by cliffs Potomac cleft | J |
| Wakeful I mused while in the street | K |
| Far footfalls died away till none were left | J |
Herman Melville
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