Battle Of Stone River, Tennessee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGHGIJ KLMLNOPOIJ FQKQRSTUIJ VWDWXYIZIIA View from Oxford Cloisters | A |
January | B |
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With Tewksbury and Barnet heath | C |
In days to come the field shall blend | D |
The story dim and date obscure | E |
In legend all shall end | D |
Even now involved in forest shade | F |
A Druid dream the strife appears | G |
The fray of yesterday assumes | H |
The haziness of years | G |
In North and South still beats the vein | I |
Of Yorkist and Lancastrian | J |
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Our rival Roses warred for Sway | K |
For Sway but named the name of Right | L |
And Passion scorning pain and death | M |
Lent sacred fervor to the fight | L |
Each lifted up a broidered cross | N |
While crossing blades profaned the sign | O |
Monks blessed the fraticidal lance | P |
And sisters scarfs could twine | O |
Do North and South the sin retain | I |
Of Yorkist and Lancastrian | J |
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But Rosecrans in the cedarn glade | F |
And deep in denser cypress gloom | Q |
Dark Breckenridge shall fade away | K |
Or thinly loom | Q |
The pale throngs who in forest cowed | R |
Before the spell of battle's pause | S |
Forefelt the stillness that shall dwell | T |
On them and on their wars | U |
North and South shall join the train | I |
Of Yorkist and Lancastrian | J |
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But where the sword has plunged so deep | V |
And then been turned within the wound | W |
By deadly Hate where Climes contend | D |
On vasty ground | W |
No warning Alps or seas between | X |
And small the curb of creed or law | Y |
And blood is quick and quick the brain | I |
Shall North and South their rage deplore | Z |
And reunited thrive amain | I |
Like Yorkist and Lancastrian | I |
Herman Melville
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