Chattanooga Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCCEFGF HIJKIGLML NOPOOQRSR CTUTTVWOW XYAYYZA2B2A2 C2NZNND2ZZZ A2CE2F2CCZZZZ

NovemberA
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A kindling impulse seized the hostB
Inspired by heaven's elastic airC
Their hearts outran their General's planD
Though Grant commanded thereC
Grant who without reserve can dareC
And Well go on and do your willE
He said and measured the mountain thenF
So master riders fling the reinG
But you must know your menF
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On yester morn in grayish mistH
Armies like ghosts on hills had foughtI
And rolled from the cloud their thunders loudJ
The Cumberlands far had caughtK
To day the sunlit steeps are soughtI
Grant stood on cliffs whence all was plainG
And smoked as one who feels no caresL
But mastered nervousness intenseM
Alone such calmness wearsL
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The summit cannon plunge their flameN
Sheer down the primal wallO
But up and up each linking troopP
In stretching festoons crawlO
Nor fire a shot Such men appallO
The foe though brave He from the brinkQ
Looks far along the breadth of slopeR
And sees two miles of dark dots creepS
And knows they mean the copeR
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He sees them creep Yet here and thereC
Half hid 'mid leafless groves they goT
As men who ply through traceries highU
Of turreted marbles showT
So dwindle these to eyes belowT
But fronting shot and flanking shellV
Sliver and rive the inwoven waysW
High tops of oaks and high hearts fallO
But never the climbing staysW
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From right to left from left to rightX
They roll the rallying cheerY
Vie with each other brother with brotherA
Who shall the first appearY
What color bearer with colors clearY
In sharp relief like sky drawn GrantZ
Whose cigar must now be near the stumpA2
While in solicitude his backB2
Heaps slowly to a humpA2
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Near and more near till now the flagsC2
Run like a catching flameN
And one flares highest to peril nighestZ
He means to make a nameN
Salvos they give him his fameN
The staff is caught and next the rushD2
And then the leap where death has ledZ
Flag answered flag along the crestZ
And swarms of rebels fledZ
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But some who gained the envied AlpA2
And eager ardent earnest thereC
Dropped into Death's wide open armsE2
Quelled on the wing like eagles struck inF2
airC
Forever they slumber young and fairC
The smile upon them as they diedZ
Their end attained that end a heightZ
Life was to these a dream fulfilledZ
And death a starry nightZ

Herman Melville



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