Battle Of Stone River, Tennessee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGHGIJ KLMLNOPOIJ FQKQRSTUIJ VWDWXYIZII

A View from Oxford CloistersA
JanuaryB
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With Tewksbury and Barnet heathC
In days to come the field shall blendD
The story dim and date obscureE
In legend all shall endD
Even now involved in forest shadeF
A Druid dream the strife appearsG
The fray of yesterday assumesH
The haziness of yearsG
In North and South still beats the veinI
Of Yorkist and LancastrianJ
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Our rival Roses warred for SwayK
For Sway but named the name of RightL
And Passion scorning pain and deathM
Lent sacred fervor to the fightL
Each lifted up a broidered crossN
While crossing blades profaned the signO
Monks blessed the fraticidal lanceP
And sisters scarfs could twineO
Do North and South the sin retainI
Of Yorkist and LancastrianJ
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But Rosecrans in the cedarn gladeF
And deep in denser cypress gloomQ
Dark Breckenridge shall fade awayK
Or thinly loomQ
The pale throngs who in forest cowedR
Before the spell of battle's pauseS
Forefelt the stillness that shall dwellT
On them and on their warsU
North and South shall join the trainI
Of Yorkist and LancastrianJ
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But where the sword has plunged so deepV
And then been turned within the woundW
By deadly Hate where Climes contendD
On vasty groundW
No warning Alps or seas betweenX
And small the curb of creed or lawY
And blood is quick and quick the brainI
Shall North and South their rage deploreZ
And reunited thrive amainI
Like Yorkist and LancastrianI

Herman Melville



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