The Battle For The Mississipppi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEBFB GHIHJFKF LMNMOFBF PQRQSTUT VHGHWXYX ZHA2HB2C2D2C2 C2E2F2E2RG2H2G2| April | A |
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| When Israel camped by Migdol hoar | B |
| Down at her feet her shawm she threw | C |
| But Moses sung and timbrels rung | D |
| For Pharaoh's standed crew | C |
| So God appears in apt events | E |
| The Lord is a man of war | B |
| So the strong wind to the muse is given | F |
| In victory's roar | B |
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| Deep be the ode that hymns the fleet | G |
| The fight by night the fray | H |
| Which bore our Flag against the powerful stream | I |
| And led it up to day | H |
| Dully through din of larger strife | J |
| Shall bay that warring gun | F |
| But none the less to us who live | K |
| It peals an echoing one | F |
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| The shock of ships the jar of walls | L |
| The rush through thick and thin | M |
| The flaring fire rafts glare and gloom | N |
| Eddies and shells that spin | M |
| The boom chain burst the hulks dislodged | O |
| The jam of gun boats driven | F |
| Or fired or sunk made up a war | B |
| Like Michael's waged with leven | F |
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| The manned Varuna stemmed and quelled | P |
| The odds which hard beset | Q |
| The oaken flag ship half ablaze | R |
| Passed on and thundered yet | Q |
| While foundering gloomed in grimy flame | S |
| The Ram Manassas hark the yell | T |
| Plunged and was gone in joy or fright | U |
| The River gave a startled swell | T |
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| They fought through lurid dark till dawn | V |
| The war smoke rolled away | H |
| With clouds of night and showed the fleet | G |
| In scarred yet firm array | H |
| Above the forts above the drift | W |
| Of wrecks which strife had made | X |
| And Farragut sailed up to the town | Y |
| And anchored sheathed the blade | X |
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| The moody broadsides brooding deep | Z |
| Hold the lewd mob at bay | H |
| While o'er the armed decks' solemn aisles | A2 |
| The meek church pennons play | H |
| By shotted guns the sailors stand | B2 |
| With foreheads bound or bare | C2 |
| The captains and the conquering crews | D2 |
| Humble their pride in prayer | C2 |
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| They pray and after victory prayer | C2 |
| Is meet for men who mourn their slain | E2 |
| The living shall unmoor and sail | F2 |
| But Death's dark anchor secret deeps detain | E2 |
| Yet glory slants her shaft of rays | R |
| Far through the undisturbed abyss | G2 |
| There must be other nobler worlds for them | H2 |
| Who nobly yield their lives in this | G2 |
Herman Melville
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