At A Dinner To General Grant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJLMNMN OPOPQRQR SASAE EN TUTUVIVI WXWXYZYZ WIWIFA2FA2 B2C2B2C2B2NB2N| JULY | A |
| - | |
| WHEN treason first began the strife | B |
| That crimsoned sea and shore | C |
| The Nation poured her hoarded life | B |
| On Freedom's threshing floor | C |
| From field and prairie east and west | D |
| From coast and hill and plain | E |
| The sheaves of ripening manhood pressed | D |
| Thick as the bearded grain | E |
| - | |
| Rich was the harvest souls as true | F |
| As ever battle tried | G |
| But fiercer still the conflict grew | F |
| The floor of death more wide | G |
| Ah who forgets that dreadful day | H |
| Whose blot of grief and shame | I |
| Four bitter years scarce wash away | H |
| In seas of blood and flame | I |
| - | |
| Vain vain the Nation's lofty boasts | J |
| Vain all her sacrifice | K |
| 'Give me a man to lead my hosts | J |
| O God in heaven ' she cries | L |
| While Battle whirls his crushing flail | M |
| And plies his winnowing fan | N |
| Thick flies the chaff on every gale | M |
| She cannot find her man | N |
| - | |
| Bravely they fought who failed to win | O |
| Our leaders battle scarred | P |
| Fighting the hosts of hell and sin | O |
| But devils die always hard | P |
| Blame not the broken tools of God | Q |
| That helped our sorest needs | R |
| Through paths that martyr feet have trod | Q |
| The conqueror's steps He leads | R |
| - | |
| But now the heavens grow black with doubt | S |
| The ravens fill the sky | A |
| 'Friends' plot within foes storm without | S |
| Hark that despairing cry | A |
| 'Where is the heart the hand the brain | E |
| To dare to do to plan ' | - |
| The bleeding Nation shrieks in vain | E |
| She has not found her man | N |
| - | |
| A little echo stirs the air | T |
| Some tale whate'er it be | U |
| Of rebels routed in their lair | T |
| Along the Tennessee | U |
| The little echo spreads and grows | V |
| And soon the trump of Fame | I |
| Has taught the Nation's friends and foes | V |
| The 'man on horseback''s name | I |
| - | |
| So well his warlike wooing sped | W |
| No fortress might resist | X |
| His billets doux of lisping lead | W |
| The bayonets in his fist | X |
| With kisses from his cannons' mouth | Y |
| He made his passion known | Z |
| Till Vicksburg vestal of the South | Y |
| Unbound her virgin zone | Z |
| - | |
| And still where'er his banners led | W |
| He conquered as he came | I |
| The trembling hosts of treason fled | W |
| Before his breath of flame | I |
| And Fame's still gathering echoes grew | F |
| Till high o'er Richmond's towers | A2 |
| The starry fold of Freedom flew | F |
| And all the land was ours | A2 |
| - | |
| Welcome from fields where valor fought | B2 |
| To feasts where pleasure waits | C2 |
| A Nation gives you smiles unbought | B2 |
| At all her opening gates | C2 |
| Forgive us when we press your hand | B2 |
| Your war worn features scan | N |
| God sent you to a bleeding land | B2 |
| Our Nation found its man | N |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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