Arms And The Man. - The Lines Around Yorktown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ| Troops late by Williamsburg's brave palace walls | A |
| With trump and drum had marched down Glo'ster street | B |
| And some with throb of oars and loud sea calls | A |
| Had landed from the fleet | B |
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| And well our leader had befooled his foes | C |
| Left them like archers blundering in the dark | D |
| To draw against the empty space their bows | E |
| While here was their true mark | D |
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| Brave Lincoln on the right with kindling eye | F |
| Smiles 'mid the cares of grave command immersed | G |
| To see dramatic retribution nigh | F |
| And Charleston's fate reversed | G |
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| The Light Troops stood upon the curved right flank | H |
| New Hampshire Massachusetts Bay were there | I |
| Connecticut marched with them rank on rank | H |
| And gallant Delaware | I |
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| There too Virginia's sturdy yeomen stood | J |
| Led on by Nelson of the open hand | K |
| As thick and stubborn as a living wood | J |
| In some enchanted land | K |
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| Next came the steady Continental Line | L |
| Rhode Island and New Jersey breast to breast | M |
| Ready to tread the hot and smoking wine | L |
| From War's red clusters pressed | M |
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| New York and Pennsylvania on these plains | N |
| Closed boldly in on the embattled town | O |
| Nor feared they threatened penalties and pains | N |
| Of Parliament or Crown | O |
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| And Maryland the gay and gallant came | P |
| As always ready for the battle's brunt | Q |
| And here again Virginia faced the flame | P |
| Along the deadly front | Q |
James Barron Hope
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