The Released Rebel Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF EHEH IJKJ LMNC EOEO PQRQ SETE EUEU VWXW| June | A |
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| Armies he's seen the herds of war | B |
| But never such swarms of men | C |
| As now in the Nineveh of the North | D |
| How mad the Rebellion then | C |
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| And yet but dimly he divines | E |
| The depth of that deceit | F |
| And superstitution of vast pride | G |
| Humbled to such defeat | F |
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| Seductive shone the Chiefs in arms | E |
| His steel the nearest magnet drew | H |
| Wreathed with its kind the Gulf weed drives | E |
| 'Tis Nature's wrong they rue | H |
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| His face is hidden in his beard | I |
| But his heart peers out at eye | J |
| And such a heart like a mountain pool | K |
| Where no man passes by | J |
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| He thinks of Hill a brave soul gone | L |
| And Ashby dead in pale disdain | M |
| And Stuart with the Rupert plume | N |
| Whose blue eye never shall laugh again | C |
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| He hears the drum he sees our boys | E |
| From his wasted fields return | O |
| Ladies feast them on strawberries | E |
| And even to kiss them yearn | O |
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| He marks them bronzed in soldier trim | P |
| The rifle proudly borne | Q |
| They bear it for an heirloom home | R |
| And he disarmed jail worn | Q |
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| Home home his heart is full of it | S |
| But home he never shall see | E |
| Even should he stand upon the spot | T |
| 'Tis gone where his brothers be | E |
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| The cypress moss from tree to tree | E |
| Hangs in his Southern land | U |
| As weird from thought to thought of his | E |
| Run memories hand in hand | U |
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| And so he lingers lingers on | V |
| In the City of the Foe | W |
| His cousins and his countrymen | X |
| Who see him listless go | W |
Herman Melville
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