The Color Sergeant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC ACEC FGHG IGJG KLML| On an Incident at the Battle of San Juan Hill | A |
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| Under a burning tropic sun | B |
| With comrades around him lying | C |
| A trooper of the sable Tenth | D |
| Lay wounded bleeding dying | C |
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| First in the charge up the fort crowned hill | A |
| His company's guidon bearing | C |
| He had rushed where the leaden hail fell fast | E |
| Not death nor danger fearing | C |
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| He fell in the front where the fight grew fierce | F |
| Still faithful in life's last labor | G |
| Black though his skin yet his heart as true | H |
| As the steel of his blood stained saber | G |
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| And while the battle around him rolled | I |
| Like the roar of a sullen breaker | G |
| He closed his eyes on the bloody scene | J |
| And presented arms to his Maker | G |
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| There he lay without honor or rank | K |
| But still in a grim like beauty | L |
| Despised of men for his humble race | M |
| Yet true in death to his duty | L |
James Weldon Johnson
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