Death Of President Lincoln Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEC FGHG IJKJ LDHD HMMM CDED HNHN OMFM AHHH APLP| In the Capitol is mourning | A |
| Mourning and woe this day | B |
| For a nation's heart is throbbing | A |
| A great man has passed away | B |
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| It was yester'even only | C |
| Rejoicing wild and high | D |
| Waving flags and shouting people | E |
| Proclaimed a victory | C |
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| For our God had led our armies | F |
| In the cause of truth and right | G |
| It was therefore the brave Southren | H |
| Had bowed to Northern might | G |
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| Then flashed o'er the land the tidings | I |
| The flush of joy to quell | J |
| Fallen is the people's hero | K |
| As William the Silent fell | J |
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| The stealthy step of the panther | L |
| The tiger's cruel eye | D |
| A flash and the wail of a nation | H |
| Rang in that terrified cry | D |
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| Shame falls on the daring Southren | H |
| Woe on the Southren land | M |
| The stars and bars are quartered | M |
| With the murderer's bloody hand | M |
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| Well he stood to his duty firmly | C |
| Rebellion's waves rolled high | D |
| He dared to be true and simple | E |
| To battle a gilded lie | D |
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| And the life has died out of treason | H |
| Died with oppression and wrong | N |
| The shame is wiped from the nation | H |
| Worn as a jewel so long | N |
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| But he in the hour of triumph | O |
| Who wise and firmly stood | M |
| Planning for them large mercies | F |
| Lies weltering in his blood | M |
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| For a cause so vile meet ending | A |
| To set with a murder stain | H |
| The sum of human villainy | H |
| Should die with the brand of Cain | H |
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| Lay him down with a nation's weeping | A |
| Lay him down with the heart's deep prayer | P |
| That the mantle of the martyr | L |
| Fall on the vacant chair | P |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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