Chattanooga Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCCEFGF HIJKIGLML NOPOOQRSR CTUTTVWOW XYAYYZA2B2A2 C2NZNND2ZZZ A2CE2F2CCZZZZNovember | A |
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A kindling impulse seized the host | B |
Inspired by heaven's elastic air | C |
Their hearts outran their General's plan | D |
Though Grant commanded there | C |
Grant who without reserve can dare | C |
And Well go on and do your will | E |
He said and measured the mountain then | F |
So master riders fling the rein | G |
But you must know your men | F |
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On yester morn in grayish mist | H |
Armies like ghosts on hills had fought | I |
And rolled from the cloud their thunders loud | J |
The Cumberlands far had caught | K |
To day the sunlit steeps are sought | I |
Grant stood on cliffs whence all was plain | G |
And smoked as one who feels no cares | L |
But mastered nervousness intense | M |
Alone such calmness wears | L |
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The summit cannon plunge their flame | N |
Sheer down the primal wall | O |
But up and up each linking troop | P |
In stretching festoons crawl | O |
Nor fire a shot Such men appall | O |
The foe though brave He from the brink | Q |
Looks far along the breadth of slope | R |
And sees two miles of dark dots creep | S |
And knows they mean the cope | R |
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He sees them creep Yet here and there | C |
Half hid 'mid leafless groves they go | T |
As men who ply through traceries high | U |
Of turreted marbles show | T |
So dwindle these to eyes below | T |
But fronting shot and flanking shell | V |
Sliver and rive the inwoven ways | W |
High tops of oaks and high hearts fall | O |
But never the climbing stays | W |
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From right to left from left to right | X |
They roll the rallying cheer | Y |
Vie with each other brother with brother | A |
Who shall the first appear | Y |
What color bearer with colors clear | Y |
In sharp relief like sky drawn Grant | Z |
Whose cigar must now be near the stump | A2 |
While in solicitude his back | B2 |
Heaps slowly to a hump | A2 |
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Near and more near till now the flags | C2 |
Run like a catching flame | N |
And one flares highest to peril nighest | Z |
He means to make a name | N |
Salvos they give him his fame | N |
The staff is caught and next the rush | D2 |
And then the leap where death has led | Z |
Flag answered flag along the crest | Z |
And swarms of rebels fled | Z |
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But some who gained the envied Alp | A2 |
And eager ardent earnest there | C |
Dropped into Death's wide open arms | E2 |
Quelled on the wing like eagles struck in | F2 |
air | C |
Forever they slumber young and fair | C |
The smile upon them as they died | Z |
Their end attained that end a height | Z |
Life was to these a dream fulfilled | Z |
And death a starry night | Z |
Herman Melville
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