On The Slain At Chickamauga Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBADBD BBBBBB| Happy are they and charmed in life | A |
| Who through long wars arrive unscarred | B |
| At peace To such the wreath be given | C |
| If they unfalteringly have striven | C |
| In honor as in limb unmarred | B |
| Let cheerful praise be rife | A |
| And let them live their years at ease | D |
| Musing on brothers who victorious died | B |
| Loved mates whose memory shall ever please | D |
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| And yet mischance is honorable too | B |
| Seeming defeat in conflict justified | B |
| Whose end to closing eyes is hid from view | B |
| The will that never can relent | B |
| The aim survivor of the bafflement | B |
| Make this memorial due | B |
Herman Melville
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