Miles Keogh's Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHDH IJHJ DKKK LMDM LDND DODPO QMDI HODD DRHDH LSDT UVDV WXYX| On the bluff of the Little Big Horn | A |
| At the close of a woeful day | B |
| Custer and his Three Hundred | C |
| In death and silence lay | B |
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| Three Hundred to Three Thousand | D |
| They had bravely fought and bled | E |
| For such is the will of Congress | F |
| When the White man meets the Red | E |
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| The White men are ten millions | G |
| The thriftiest under the sun | H |
| The Reds are fifty thousand | D |
| And warriors every one | H |
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| So Custer and all his fighting men | I |
| Lay under the evening skies | J |
| Staring up at the tranquil heaven | H |
| With wide accusing eyes | J |
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| And of all that stood at noonday | D |
| In that fiery scorpion ring | K |
| Miles Keogh's horse at evening | K |
| Was the only living thing | K |
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| Alone from that field of slaughter | L |
| Where lay the three hundred slain | M |
| The horse Comanche wandered | D |
| With Keogh's blood on his mane | M |
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| And Sturgis issued this order | L |
| Which future times shall read | D |
| While the love and honour of comrades | N |
| Are the soul of the soldiers creed | D |
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| He said | D |
| Let the horse Comanche | O |
| Henceforth till he shall die | D |
| Be kindly cherished and cared for | P |
| By the Seventh Cavalry | O |
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| He shall do no labour he never shall know | Q |
| The touch of spur or rein | M |
| Nor shall his back be ever crossed | D |
| By living rider again | I |
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| And at regimental formation | H |
| Of the Seventh Cavalry | O |
| Comanche draped in mourning and led | D |
| By a trooper of Company I | D |
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| Shall parade with the Regiment | D |
| Thus it was | R |
| Commanded and thus done | H |
| By order of General Sturgis signed | D |
| By Adjutant Garlington | H |
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| Even as the sword of Custer | L |
| In his disastrous fall | S |
| Flashed out a blaze that charmed the world | D |
| And glorified his pall | T |
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| This order issued amid the gloom | U |
| That shrouds our army's name | V |
| When all foul beasts are free to rend | D |
| And tear its honest fame | V |
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| Shall prove to a callous people | W |
| That the sense of a soldier's worth | X |
| That the love of comrades the honour of arms | Y |
| Have not yet perished from earth | X |
John Milton Hay
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