Gettysburg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDED DEFGHHIDDD JFKFFFDF FLFLDDMMFM| O Pride of the days in prime of the months | A |
| Now trebled in great renown | B |
| When before the ark of our holy cause | C |
| Fell Dagon down | B |
| Dagon foredoomed who armed and targed | D |
| Never his impious heart enlarged | D |
| Beyond that hour God walled his power | E |
| And there the last invader charged | D |
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| He charged and in that charge condensed | D |
| His all of hate and all of fire | E |
| He sought to blast us in his scorn | F |
| And wither us in his ire | G |
| Before him went the shriek of shells | H |
| Aerial screamings taunts and yells | H |
| Then the three waves in flashed advance | I |
| Surged but were met and back they set | D |
| Pride was repelled by sterner pride | D |
| And Right is a strong hold yet | D |
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| Before our lines it seemed a beach | J |
| Which wild September gales have strown | F |
| With havoc on wreck and dashed therewith | K |
| Pale crews unknown | F |
| Men arms and steeds The evening sun | F |
| Died on the face of each lifeless one | F |
| And died along the winding marge of fight | D |
| And searching parties lone | F |
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| Sloped on the hill the mounds were green | F |
| Our centre held that place of graves | L |
| And some still hold it in their swoon | F |
| And over these a glory waves | L |
| The warrior monument crashed in fight | D |
| Shall soar transfigured in loftier light | D |
| A meaning ampler bear | M |
| Soldier and priest with hymn and prayer | M |
| Have laid the stone and every bone | F |
| Shall rest in honor there | M |
Herman Melville
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