Grant-1885 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCB DDAA EEFFGGHIJA JKKLLMMMMM| BLESSED are Pain the smiter | A |
| And Sorrow the uniter | A |
| For one afflicted lies | B |
| A symboled sacrifice | C |
| And all our rancor dies | B |
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| No North no South O stern faced Chief | D |
| One weeping ours one cowled Grief | D |
| Thy Country bowed in prayer and tear | A |
| For North and South above thy bier | A |
| - | |
| For North and South O Soldier grim | E |
| The broken ones to weep for him | E |
| Who broke them He whose terrors blazed | F |
| In smoking harvests cities razed | F |
| Whose Fate like glance sent fear and chill | G |
| Whose wordless lips spake deathless will | G |
| Till all was shattered all was lost | H |
| All hands dropped down all War's red cost | I |
| Laid there in ashes Hope and Hate | J |
| And Shame and Glory | A |
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| Death and Fate | J |
| Fall back Another touch is thine | K |
| He drank not of thy poisoned wine | K |
| Nor blindly met thy blind thrown lance | L |
| Nor died for sightless time or chance | L |
| But waited suffered bowed and tried | M |
| Till all the dross was purified | M |
| Till every well of hate was dried | M |
| And North and South in sorrow vied | M |
| And then at God's own calling died | M |
John Boyle O'reilly
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