The March Into Virginia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDCEFEFGF HIJJKLMNNOFFJPQQQFF FRSFRFR| Ending in the First Manassas | A |
| July | B |
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| Did all the lets and bars appear | C |
| To every just or larger end | D |
| Whence should come the trust and cheer | C |
| Youth must its ignorant impulse lend | D |
| Age finds place in the rear | C |
| All wars are boyish and are fought by boys | E |
| The champions and enthusiasts of the state | F |
| Turbid ardors and vain joys | E |
| Not barrenly abate | F |
| Stimulants to the power mature | G |
| Preparatives of fate | F |
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| Who here forecasteth the event | H |
| What heart but spurns at precedent | I |
| And warnings of the wise | J |
| Contemned foreclosures of surprise | J |
| The banners play the bugles call | K |
| The air is blue and prodigal | L |
| No berrying party pleasure wooed | M |
| No picnic party in the May | N |
| Ever went less loth than they | N |
| Into that leafy neighborhood | O |
| In Bacchic glee they file toward Fate | F |
| Moloch's uninitiate | F |
| Expectancy and glad surmise | J |
| Of battle's unknown mysteries | P |
| All they feel is this 't is glory | Q |
| A rapture sharp though transitory | Q |
| Yet lasting in belaureled story | Q |
| So they gayly go to fight | F |
| Chatting left and laughing right | F |
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| But some who this blithe mood present | F |
| As on in lightsome files they fare | R |
| Shall die experienced ere three days are | S |
| spent | F |
| Perish enlightened by the vollied glare | R |
| Or shame survive and like to adamant | F |
| The throe of Second Manassas share | R |
Herman Melville
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