Rebel Color-bearers At Shiloh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEEEDFFG HHI JJKKKJLLLL MAMBCMAANOPPO| A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civilians | A |
| shortly after the surrender at Appomattox | A |
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| The color bearers facing death | B |
| White in the whirling sulphurous wreath | C |
| Stand boldly out before the line | D |
| Right and left their glances go | E |
| Proud of each other glorying in their show | E |
| Their battle flags about them blow | E |
| And fold them as in flame divine | D |
| Such living robes are only seen | F |
| Round martyrs burning on the green | F |
| And martyrs for the Wrong have been | G |
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| Perish their Cause but mark the men | H |
| Mark the planted statues then | H |
| Draw trigger on them if you can | I |
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| The leader of a patriot band | J |
| Even so could view rebels who so could stand | J |
| And this when peril pressed him sore | K |
| Left aidless in the shivered front of war | K |
| Skulkers behind defiant foes before | K |
| And fighting with a broken brand | J |
| The challenge in that courage rare | L |
| Courage defenseless proudly bare | L |
| Never could tempt him he could dare | L |
| Strike up the leveled rifle there | L |
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| Sunday at Shiloh and the day | M |
| When Stonewall charged McClellan's | A |
| crimson May | M |
| And Chickamauga's wave of death | B |
| And of the Wilderness the cypress wreath | C |
| All these have passed away | M |
| The life in the veins of Treason lags | A |
| Her daring color bearers drop their flags | A |
| And yield Now shall we fire | N |
| Can poor spite be | O |
| Shall nobleness in victory less aspire | P |
| Than in reverse Spare Spleen her ire | P |
| And think how Grant met Lee | O |
Herman Melville
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