The Fall Of Richmond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFDD GHCCHIHH JCKACLMC| The tidings received in the Northern Metropolis | A |
| April | B |
| - | |
| - | |
| What mean these peals from every tower | C |
| And crowds like seas that sway | D |
| The cannon reply they speak the heart | E |
| Of the People impassioned and say | D |
| A city in flags for a city in flames | F |
| Richmond goes Babylon's way | D |
| Sing and pray | D |
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| O weary years and woeful wars | G |
| And armies in the grave | H |
| But hearts unquelled at last deter | C |
| The helmed dilated Lucifer | C |
| Honor to Grant the brave | H |
| Whose three stars now like Orion's rise | I |
| When wreck is on the wave | H |
| Bless his glaive | H |
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| Well that the faith we firmly kept | J |
| And never our aim forswore | C |
| For the Terrors that trooped from each recess | K |
| When fainting we fought in the Wilderness | A |
| And Hell made loud hurrah | C |
| But God is in Heaven and Grant in the Town | L |
| And Right through might is Law | M |
| God's way adore | C |
Herman Melville
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