The Victor Of Antietam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAA CCDDDDBDD EEFFDDDBDBD GHIIBH JBJJBKBBJ DBLDDDDDBD DBDDDDDBD CBCCCCCCBC| When tempest winnowed grain from bran | A |
| And men were looking for a man | A |
| Authority called you to the van | A |
| McClellan | B |
| Along the line the plaudit ran | A |
| As later when Antietam's cheers began | A |
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| Through storm cloud and eclipse must move | C |
| Each Cause and Man dear to the stars and Jove | C |
| Nor always can the wisest tell | D |
| Deferred fulfillment from the hopeless knell | D |
| The struggler from the floundering ne'er do well | D |
| A pall cloth on the Seven Days fell | D |
| McClellan | B |
| Unprosperously heroical | D |
| Who could Antietam's wreath foretell | D |
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| Authority called you then in mist | E |
| And loom of jeopardy dismissed | E |
| But staring peril soon appalled | F |
| You the Discarded she recalled | F |
| Recalled you nor endured delay | D |
| And forth you rode upon a blasted way | D |
| Arrayed Pope's rout and routed Lee's array | D |
| McClellan | B |
| Your tent was choked with captured flags that day | D |
| McClellan | B |
| Antietam was a telling fray | D |
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| Recalled you and she heard your drum | G |
| Advancing through the ghastly gloom | H |
| You manned the wall you propped the Dome | I |
| You stormed the powerful stormer home | I |
| McClellan | B |
| Antietam's cannon long shall boom | H |
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| At Alexandria left alone | J |
| McClellan | B |
| Your veterans sent from you and thrown | J |
| To fields and fortunes all unknown | J |
| What thoughts were yours revealed to none | B |
| While faithful still you labored on | K |
| Hearing the far Manassas gun | B |
| McClellan | B |
| Only Antietam could atone | J |
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| You fought in the front an evil day | D |
| McClellan | B |
| The fore front of the first assay | L |
| The Cause went sounding groped its way | D |
| The leadsmen quarrelled in the bay | D |
| Quills thwarted swords divided sway | D |
| The rebel flushed in his lusty May | D |
| You did your best as in you lay | D |
| McClellan | B |
| Antietam's sun burst sheds a ray | D |
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| Your medalled soldiers love you well | D |
| McClellan | B |
| Name your name their true hearts swell | D |
| With you they shook dread Stonewall's spell | D |
| With you they braved the blended yell | D |
| Of rebel and maligner fell | D |
| With you in shame or fame they dwell | D |
| McClellan | B |
| Antietam braves a brave can tell | D |
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| And when your comrades now so few | C |
| McClellan | B |
| Such ravage in deep files they rue | C |
| Meet round the board and sadly view | C |
| The empty places tribute due | C |
| They render to the dead and you | C |
| Absent and silent o'er the blue | C |
| The one armed lift the wine to you | C |
| McClellan | B |
| And great Antietam's cheers renew | C |
Herman Melville
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