Arms And The Man. - Storming The Redoubts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CD EE FF CC GG HH II CC JJ KK LL MM KK LL II| On the night air there floating comes hoarse war like low and deep | A |
| A sound as tho' the dreaming drums were talking in their sleep | A |
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| Fall in Fall in The stormers form in silence stern and grim | B |
| Each heart full beating out the time to Freedom's battle hymn | B |
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| Charge en Avant The word goes forth and forth the stormers go | C |
| Each column like a mighty shaft shot from a mighty bow | D |
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| And tumult rose upon the night like sound of roaring seas | E |
| Mars drank of the Horn of Ulphus and he drained it to the lees | E |
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| Now by fair Freedom's splendid dreams it was a gallant sight | F |
| To see the blows against the foes well struck that Autumn night | F |
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| Gimat and Fish and Hamilton and Laurens pressed the foe | C |
| And Olney brave Rhode Islander was there alas laid low | C |
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| Viominil and Noallies and Damas stout and brave | G |
| Broke o'er the English right redoubt a steel encrested wave | G |
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| St Simon from his sick couch rose wooed by the battle's charms | H |
| And like a knight of old romance went to the shock of arms | H |
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| But they who bore the muskets who went charging thro' the flame | I |
| Deserve far more than ever will be given them by Fame | I |
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| Then let us pour libations out full freely let them flow | C |
| For the men who bore the muskets here a century ago | C |
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| And then the columns won the works and then uprose the cheers | J |
| That have lasted us and ours for a good one hundred years | J |
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| And there were those amid the French filled with a rapture stern | K |
| And long the cry resounded Live the Regiment of Auverne | K |
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| Long live the Gallic Army and long live splendid France | L |
| The Power that gives to History the beauty of Romance | L |
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| Upon our right commanded one dearer by far than all | M |
| The hero who first came to us and came without a call | M |
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| Whose name with that of his leader all histories entwine | K |
| The one as is the mighty oak the other as the vine | K |
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| The one the staff the other the great banner on its lance | L |
| Now need I name the dearest name of all the names of France | L |
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| Oh Marquis brave Upon this shaft deep cut thy cherished name | I |
| Twin Old Mortalities shall find fond Gratitude and Fame | I |
James Barron Hope
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