Lexington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEEF AGAGHHIJJI AKAKLLMNNM AOAPQQERRE ACACSSPJJP ARARTTBUUB| Slowly the mist o er the meadow was creeping | A |
| Bright on the dewy buds glistened the sun | B |
| When from his couch while his children were sleeping | A |
| Rose the bold rebel and shouldered his gun | B |
| Waving her golden veil | C |
| Over the silent dale | C |
| Blithe looked the morning on cottage and spire | D |
| Hushed was his parting sigh | E |
| While from his noble eye | E |
| Flashed the last sparkle of liberty s fire | F |
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| On the smooth green where the fresh leaf is springing | A |
| Calmly the first born of glory have met | G |
| Hark the death volley around them is ringing | A |
| Look with their life blood the young grass is wet | G |
| Faint is the feeble breath | H |
| Murmuring low in death | H |
| Tell to our sons how their fathers have died | I |
| Nerveless the iron hand | J |
| Raised for its native land | J |
| Lies by the weapon that gleams at its side | I |
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| Over the hillsides the wild knell is tolling | A |
| From their far hamlets the yeomanry come | K |
| As through the storm clouds the thunder burst rolling | A |
| Circles the beat of the mustering drum | K |
| Fast on the soldier s path | L |
| Darken the waves of wrath | L |
| Long have they gathered and loud shall they fall | M |
| Red glares the musket s flash | N |
| Sharp rings the rifle s crash | N |
| Blazing and clanging from thicket and wall | M |
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| Gayly the plume of the horseman was dancing | A |
| Never to shadow his cold brow again | O |
| Proudly at morning the war steed was prancing | A |
| Reeking and panting he droops on the rein | P |
| Pale is the lip of scorn | Q |
| Voiceless the trumpet horn | Q |
| Torn is the silken fringed red cross on high | E |
| Many a belted breast | R |
| Low on the turf shall rest | R |
| Ere the dark hunters the herd have passed by | E |
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| Snow girdled crags where the hoarse wind is raving | A |
| Rocks where the weary floods murmur and wail | C |
| Wilds where the fern by the furrow is waving | A |
| Reeled with the echoes that rode on the gale | C |
| Far as the tempest thrills | S |
| Over the darkened hills | S |
| Far as the sunshine streams over the plain | P |
| Roused by the tyrant band | J |
| Woke all the mighty land | J |
| Girded for battle from mountain to main | P |
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| Green be the graves where her martyrs are lying | A |
| Shroudless and tombless they sunk to their rest | R |
| While o er their ashes the starry fold flying | A |
| Wraps the proud eagle they roused from his nest | R |
| Borne on her Northern pine | T |
| Long o er the foaming brine | T |
| Spread her broad banner to storm and to sun | B |
| Heaven keep her ever free | U |
| Wide as o er land and sea | U |
| Floats the fair emblem her heroes have won | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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