Arms And The Man. - The Allies At Yorktown. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG HIHI JKJK LHLH| And here France came one hundred years ago | A |
| Red russet purple glowed upon the trees | B |
| And sunset glories deepened in their glow | A |
| Along the painted seas | B |
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| A wealth of color blazed on land and wave | C |
| Topaz and gold and crimson met the eye | D |
| October hailed the ships which came to save | C |
| With banners in the sky | D |
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| DeBarras swept down from the Northern coast | E |
| DeGrasse foam driving came with favoring breeze | B |
| And here surprised the proud marauding host | E |
| Like spectres of the seas | B |
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| Then was no time for such a boastful strain | F |
| As Campbell sang o'er Baltic's bloody tide | G |
| Nor did Britannia dominate the main | F |
| In customary pride | G |
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| France closed this river and France ruled yon sea | H |
| Held all our waters in triumphant state | I |
| Her sails foretelling what was soon to be | H |
| Like Ministers of Fate | I |
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| And when the Union chants her proudest Lay | J |
| DeGrasse is often on her tuneful lips | K |
| And his achievement challenges to day | J |
| Some Homer of the ships | K |
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| So when this spot its monument shall crown | L |
| His name upon its base two Worlds shall see | H |
| With a fair wind his story shall sail down | L |
| Through Ages yet to be | H |
James Barron Hope
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