The College Colonel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFGHIFJFKF LDMNJ OPQP RSTS UVWVXV| He rides at their head | A |
| A crutch by his saddle just slants in view | B |
| One slung arm is in splints you see | C |
| Yet he guides his strong steed how | D |
| coldly too | B |
| - | |
| He brings his regiment home | E |
| Not as they filed two years before | F |
| But a remnant half tattered and battered | G |
| and worn | H |
| Like castaway sailors who stunned | I |
| By the surf's loud roar | F |
| Their mates dragged back and seen no | J |
| more | F |
| Again and again breast the surge | K |
| And at last crawl spent to shore | F |
| - | |
| A still rigidity and pale | L |
| An Indian aloofness lones his brow | D |
| He has lived a thousand years | M |
| Compressed in battle's pains and prayers | N |
| Marches and watches slow | J |
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| There are welcoming shouts and flags | O |
| Old men off hat to the Boy | P |
| Wreaths from gay balconies fall at his feet | Q |
| But to him there comes alloy | P |
| - | |
| It is not that a leg is lost | R |
| It is not that an arm is maimed | S |
| It is not that the fever has racked | T |
| Self he has long disclaimed | S |
| - | |
| But all through the Seven Days' Fight | U |
| And deep in the Wilderness grim | V |
| And in the field hospital tent | W |
| And Petersburg crater and dim | V |
| Lean brooding in Libby there came | X |
| Ah heaven what truth to him | V |
Herman Melville
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