For The Fair In Aid Of The Fund To Procure Ball's Statue Of Washington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFGFGHIHJ KLKLMNMNOOOOOOOO PQPQRPRPSTSTUVUV W| A | |
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| All overgrown with bush and fern | B |
| And straggling clumps of tangled trees | C |
| With trunks that lean and boughs that turn | B |
| Bent eastward by the mastering breeze | C |
| With spongy bogs that drip and fill | D |
| A yellow pond with muddy rain | E |
| Beneath the shaggy southern hill | D |
| Lies wet and low the Shawinut plain | E |
| And hark the trodden branches crack | F |
| A crow flaps off with startled scream | G |
| A straying woodchuck canters back | F |
| A bittern rises from the stream | G |
| Leaps from his lair a frightened deer | H |
| An otter plunges in the pool | I |
| Here comes old Shawmut's pioneer | H |
| The parson on his brindled bull | J |
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| The streets are thronged with trampling feet | K |
| The northern hill is ridged with graves | L |
| But night and morn the drum is beat | K |
| To frighten down the rebel knaves | L |
| The stones of King Street still are red | M |
| And yet the bloody red coats come | N |
| I hear their pacing sentry's tread | M |
| The click of steel the tap of drum | N |
| And over all the open green | O |
| Where grazed of late the harmless kine | O |
| The cannon's deepening ruts are seen | O |
| The war horse stamps the bayonets shine | O |
| The clouds are dark with crimson rain | O |
| Above the murderous hirelings' den | O |
| And soon their whistling showers shall stain | O |
| The pipe clayed belts of Gage's men | O |
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| Around the green in morning light | P |
| The spired and palaced summits blaze | Q |
| And sunlike from her Beacon height | P |
| The dome crowned city spreads her rays | Q |
| They span the waves they belt the plains | R |
| They skirt the roads with bands of white | P |
| Till with a flash of gilded panes | R |
| Yon farthest hillside bounds the sight | P |
| Peace Freedom Wealth no fairer view | S |
| Though with the wild bird's restless wings | T |
| We sailed beneath the noontide's blue | S |
| Or chased the moonlight's endless rings | T |
| Here fitly raised by grateful hands | U |
| His holiest memory to recall | V |
| The Hero's Patriot's image stands | U |
| He led our sires who won them all | V |
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| November | W |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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