The March To The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCBCDEBEBEFGFGFHIE JEBE DKDKDKLEBEBE DMDMDNOEBEBE BPBPBPQEDEBE DBDBDBDEJEBE DRDRDRSEBEBE BTBUBTQEQEQE JA | |
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Not Kenesaw high arching | B |
Nor Allatoona's glen | C |
Though there the graves lie parching | B |
Stayed Sherman's miles of men | C |
From charred Atlanta marching | B |
They launched the sword again | C |
The columns streamed like rivers | D |
Which in their course agree | E |
And they streamed until their flashing | B |
Met the flashing of the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
That marching to the sea | E |
The brushed the foe before them | F |
Shall gnats impede the bull | G |
Their own good bridges bore them | F |
Over swamps or torrents full | G |
And the grand pines waving o'er them | F |
Bowed to axes keen and cool | H |
The columns grooved their channels | I |
Enforced their own decree | E |
And their power met nothing larger | J |
Until it met the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
A marching glad and free | E |
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Kilpatrick's snare of riders | D |
In zigzags mazed the land | K |
Perplexed the pale Southsiders | D |
With feints on every hand | K |
Vague menace awed the hiders | D |
In forts beyond command | K |
To Sherman's shifting problem | L |
No foeman knew the key | E |
But onward went the marching | B |
Unpausing to the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
The swinging step was free | E |
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The flankers ranged like pigeons | D |
In clouds through field or wood | M |
The flocks of all those regions | D |
The herds and horses good | M |
Poured in and swelled the legions | D |
For they caught the marching mood | N |
A volley ahead They hear it | O |
And they hear the repartee | E |
Fighting was but frolic | B |
In that marching to the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
A marching bold and free | E |
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All nature felt their coming | B |
The birds like couriers flew | P |
And the banners brightly blooming | B |
The slaves by thousands drew | P |
And they marched beside the drumming | B |
And they joined the armies blue | P |
The cocks crowed from the cannon | Q |
Pets named from Grant and Lee | E |
Plumed fighters and campaigners | D |
In the marching to the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
For every man was free | E |
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The foragers through calm lands | D |
Swept in tempest gay | B |
And they breathed the air of balm lands | D |
Where rolled savannas lay | B |
And they helped themselves from farm lands | D |
As who should say them nay | B |
The regiments uproarious | D |
Laughed in Plenty's glee | E |
And they marched till their broad laughter | J |
Met the laughter of the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
That marching to the sea | E |
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The grain of endless acres | D |
Was threshed as in the East | R |
By the trampling of the Takers | D |
Strong march of man and beast | R |
The flails of those earth shakers | D |
Left a famine where they ceased | R |
The arsenals were yielded | S |
The sword that was to be | E |
Arrested in the forging | B |
Rued that marching to the sea | E |
It was glorious glad marching | B |
But ah the stern decree | E |
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For behind they left a wailing | B |
A terror and a ban | T |
And blazing cinders sailing | B |
And houseless households wan | U |
Wide zones of counties paling | B |
And towns where maniacs ran | T |
Was it Treason's retribution | Q |
Necessity the plea | E |
They will long remember Sherman | Q |
And his streaming columns free | E |
They will long remember Sherman | Q |
Marching to the sea | E |
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December | J |
Herman Melville
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