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