Sherman's In Savannah - A Half-rhymed Impromptu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCB DEFFFB GBHHHB IEJJJB| Like the tribes of Israel | A |
| Fed on quails and manna | B |
| Sherman and his glorious band | C |
| Journeyed through the rebel land | C |
| Fed from Heaven's all bounteous hand | C |
| Marching on Savannah | B |
| - | |
| As the moving pillar shone | D |
| Streamed the starry banner | E |
| All day long in rosy light | F |
| Flaming splendor all the night | F |
| Till it swooped in eagle flight | F |
| Down on doomed Savannah | B |
| - | |
| Glory be to God on high | G |
| Shout the loud Hosanna | B |
| Treason's wilderness is past | H |
| Canaan's shore is won at last | H |
| Peal a nation's trumpet blast | H |
| Sherman 's in Savannah | B |
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| Soon shall Richmond's tough old hide | I |
| Find a tough old tanner | E |
| Soon from every rebel wall | J |
| Shall the rag of treason fall | J |
| Till our banner flaps o'er all | J |
| As it crowns Savannah | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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