Arms And The Man. - The Continentals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LL| In hunting shirts or faded blue and buff | A |
| And many clad in simple rustic stuff | A |
| Their ensigns torn but held by Freedom's hand | B |
| In long drawn lines the Continentals stand | B |
| To them precision if not martial grace | C |
| Each heart triumphant but composed each face | C |
| Well taught in military arts by brave Steuben | D |
| With port of soldiers majesty of men | E |
| All fathers of their Country like a wall | F |
| They stand at rest to see the curtain fall | F |
| Well taught were they by one who learned War's trade | G |
| From Frederick whom not Ruin's self dismayed | G |
| Well taught by one who never lost the heat | H |
| Caught on an anvil where all Europe beat | H |
| Beat in a storm of blows with might and main | I |
| But on that Prussian anvil beat in vain | I |
| And to the gallant race of Steuben's name | J |
| That long has held close intercourse with Fame | J |
| This great Republic bows its lofty crest | K |
| And folds his kinsmen to her ample breast | K |
| At fray or festival on march or halt | L |
| Von Steuben always far above the salt | L |
James Barron Hope
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