Stonewall Jackson (ascribed To A Virginian) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECF GFHIHHHD JFAKAAAD LFMFMMMD NFOFOOOD MDMFMMD MFPD P| One man we claim of wrought reknown | A |
| Which not the North shall care to slur | B |
| A Modern lived who sleeps in death | C |
| Calm as the marble Ancients are | D |
| 'Tis he whose life though a vapor's wreath | E |
| Was charged with the lightning's burning breath | C |
| Stonewall stormer of the war | F |
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| But who shall hymn the Roman heart | G |
| A stoic he but even more | F |
| The iron will and lion thew | H |
| Were strong to inflict as to endure | I |
| Who like him could stand or pursue | H |
| His fate the fatalist followed through | H |
| In all his great soul found to do | H |
| Stonewall followed his star | D |
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| He followed his star on the Romney march | J |
| Through the sleet to the wintry war | F |
| And he followed it on when he bowed the grain | A |
| The Wind of the Shenandoah | K |
| At Gaines's Mill in the giants' strain | A |
| On the fierce forced stride to Manassas plain | A |
| Where his sword with thunder was clothed again | A |
| Stonewall followed his star | D |
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| His star he followed athwart the flood | L |
| To Potomac's Northern shore | F |
| When midway wading his host of braves | M |
| 'My Maryland ' loud did roar | F |
| To red Antietam's field of graves | M |
| Through mountain passes woods and waves | M |
| They followed their pagod with hymns and glaives | M |
| For Stonewall followed a star | D |
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| Back it led him to Marye's slope | N |
| Where the shock and the fame he bore | F |
| And to green Moss Neck it guided him | O |
| Brief respite from throes of war | F |
| To the laurel glade by the Wilderness grim | O |
| Through climxed victory naught shall dim | O |
| Even unto death it piloted him | O |
| Stonewall followed his star | D |
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| Its lead he followed in gentle ways | M |
| Which never the valiant mar | D |
| A cap we sent him bestarred to replace | M |
| The sun scorched helm of war | F |
| A fillet he made of the shining lace | M |
| Childhood's laughing brow to grace | M |
| Not his was a goldsmith's star | D |
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| O much of doubt in after days | M |
| Shall cling as now to the war | F |
| Of the right and the wrong they'll still debate | P |
| Puzzled by Stonewall's star | D |
| 'Fortune went with the North elate ' | - |
| 'Ay but the South had Stonewall's weight | P |
| And he fell in the South's great war ' | - |
Herman Melville
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