The March To The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCBCDEBEBEFGFGFHIE JEBE DKDKDKLEBEBE DMDMDNOEBEBE BPBPBPQEDEBE DBDBDBDEJEBE DRDRDRSEBEBE BTBUBTQEQEQE J

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Not Kenesaw high archingB
Nor Allatoona's glenC
Though there the graves lie parchingB
Stayed Sherman's miles of menC
From charred Atlanta marchingB
They launched the sword againC
The columns streamed like riversD
Which in their course agreeE
And they streamed until their flashingB
Met the flashing of the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
That marching to the seaE
The brushed the foe before themF
Shall gnats impede the bullG
Their own good bridges bore themF
Over swamps or torrents fullG
And the grand pines waving o'er themF
Bowed to axes keen and coolH
The columns grooved their channelsI
Enforced their own decreeE
And their power met nothing largerJ
Until it met the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
A marching glad and freeE
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Kilpatrick's snare of ridersD
In zigzags mazed the landK
Perplexed the pale SouthsidersD
With feints on every handK
Vague menace awed the hidersD
In forts beyond commandK
To Sherman's shifting problemL
No foeman knew the keyE
But onward went the marchingB
Unpausing to the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
The swinging step was freeE
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The flankers ranged like pigeonsD
In clouds through field or woodM
The flocks of all those regionsD
The herds and horses goodM
Poured in and swelled the legionsD
For they caught the marching moodN
A volley ahead They hear itO
And they hear the reparteeE
Fighting was but frolicB
In that marching to the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
A marching bold and freeE
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All nature felt their comingB
The birds like couriers flewP
And the banners brightly bloomingB
The slaves by thousands drewP
And they marched beside the drummingB
And they joined the armies blueP
The cocks crowed from the cannonQ
Pets named from Grant and LeeE
Plumed fighters and campaignersD
In the marching to the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
For every man was freeE
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The foragers through calm landsD
Swept in tempest gayB
And they breathed the air of balm landsD
Where rolled savannas layB
And they helped themselves from farm landsD
As who should say them nayB
The regiments uproariousD
Laughed in Plenty's gleeE
And they marched till their broad laughterJ
Met the laughter of the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
That marching to the seaE
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The grain of endless acresD
Was threshed as in the EastR
By the trampling of the TakersD
Strong march of man and beastR
The flails of those earth shakersD
Left a famine where they ceasedR
The arsenals were yieldedS
The sword that was to beE
Arrested in the forgingB
Rued that marching to the seaE
It was glorious glad marchingB
But ah the stern decreeE
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For behind they left a wailingB
A terror and a banT
And blazing cinders sailingB
And houseless households wanU
Wide zones of counties palingB
And towns where maniacs ranT
Was it Treason's retributionQ
Necessity the pleaE
They will long remember ShermanQ
And his streaming columns freeE
They will long remember ShermanQ
Marching to the seaE
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DecemberJ

Herman Melville



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