On A Natural Monument In A Field Of Georgia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDCDEDFEDDFGHFHGGI JBBIJ K| A | |
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| No trophy this a Stone unhewn | B |
| And stands where here the field immures | C |
| The nameless brave whose palms are won | B |
| Outcast they sleep yet fame is nigh | D |
| Pure fame of deeds not doers | C |
| Nor deeds of men who bleeding die | D |
| In cheer of hymns that round them float | E |
| In happy dreams such close the eye | D |
| But withering famine slowly wore | F |
| And slowly fell disease did gloat | E |
| Even Nature's self did aid deny | D |
| They choked in horror the pensive sigh | D |
| Yea off from home sad Memory bore | F |
| Though anguished Yearning heaved that way | G |
| Lest wreck of reason might befall | H |
| As men in gales shun the lee shore | F |
| Though there the homestead be and call | H |
| And thitherward winds and waters sway | G |
| As such lorn mariners so fared they | G |
| But naught shall now their peace molest | I |
| Their fame is this they did endure | J |
| Endure when fortitude was vain | B |
| To kindle any approving strain | B |
| Which they might hear To these who rest | I |
| This healing sleep alone was sure | J |
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| Written prior to the founding of the National Cemetery at Andersonville where of the reinterred captives now sleep each beneath his personal head board inscribed from records found in the prison hospital Some hundreds rest apart and without name A glance at the published pamphlet containing the list of the buried at Andersonville conveys a feeling mournfully impressive Seventy four large double columned page in fine print Looking through them is like getting lost among the old turbaned head stones and cypresses in the interminable Black Forest of Scutari over against Constantinople | K |
Herman Melville
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