The Advance Guard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJKLMNM OPQPRSTS UVBVWXYX ZA2B2C2D2E2TE2 F2G2NG2LMB2M H2I2RI2CB2J2B2| In the dream of the Northern poets | A |
| The brave who in battle die | B |
| Fight on in shadowy phalanx | C |
| In the field of the upper sky | B |
| And as we read the sounding rhyme | D |
| The reverent fancy hears | E |
| The ghostly ring of the viewless swords | F |
| And the clash of the spectral spears | G |
| - | |
| We think with imperious questionings | H |
| Of the brothers whom we have lost | I |
| And we strive to track in death's mystery | J |
| The flight of each valiant ghost | K |
| The Northern myth comes back to us | L |
| And we feel through our sorrow's night | M |
| That those young souls are striving still | N |
| Somewhere for the truth and light | M |
| - | |
| It was not their time for rest and sleep | O |
| Their hearts beat high and strong | P |
| In their fresh veins the blood of youth | Q |
| Was singing its hot sweet song | P |
| The open heaven bent over them | R |
| Mid flowers their lithe feet trod | S |
| Their lives lay vivid in light and blest | T |
| By the smiles of women and God | S |
| - | |
| Again they come Again I hear | U |
| The tread of that goodly band | V |
| I know the flash of Ellsworth's eye | B |
| And the grasp of his hard warm hand | V |
| And Putnam and Shaw of the lion heart | W |
| And an eye like a Boston girl's | X |
| And I see the light of heaven which lay | Y |
| On Ulric Dahlgren's curls | X |
| - | |
| There is no power in the gloom of hell | Z |
| To quench those spirits' fire | A2 |
| There is no power in the bliss of heaven | B2 |
| To bid them not aspire | C2 |
| But somewhere in the eternal plan | D2 |
| That strength that life survive | E2 |
| And like the files on Lookout's crest | T |
| Above death's clouds they strive | E2 |
| - | |
| A chosen corps they are marching on | F2 |
| In a wider field than ours | G2 |
| Those bright battalions still fulfill | N |
| The scheme of the heavenly powers | G2 |
| And high brave thoughts float down to us | L |
| The echoes of that far fight | M |
| Like the flash of a distant picket's gun | B2 |
| Through the shades of the severing night | M |
| - | |
| No fear for them In our lower field | H2 |
| Let us keep our arms unstained | I2 |
| That at last we be worthy to stand with them | R |
| On the shining heights they've gained | I2 |
| We shall meet and greet in closing ranks | C |
| In Time's declining sun | B2 |
| When the bugles of God shall sound recall | J2 |
| And the battle of life be won | B2 |
John Hay
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