Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FGFFG HICHI DCDDC| APRIL | A |
| - | |
| EIGHTY years have passed and more | B |
| Since under the brave old tree | C |
| Our fathers gathered in arms and swore | B |
| They would follow the sign their banners bore | B |
| And fight till the land was free | C |
| - | |
| Half of their work was done | D |
| Half is left to do | E |
| Cambridge and Concord and Lexington | D |
| When the battle is fought and won | D |
| What shall be told of you | E |
| - | |
| Hark 't is the south wind moans | F |
| Who are the martyrs down | G |
| Ah the marrow was true in your children's bones | F |
| That sprinkled with blood the cursed stones | F |
| Of the murder haunted town | G |
| - | |
| What if the storm clouds blow | H |
| What if the green leaves fall | I |
| Better the crashing tempest's throe | C |
| Than the army of worms that gnawed below | H |
| Trample them one and all | I |
| - | |
| Then when the battle is won | D |
| And the land from traitors free | C |
| Our children shall tell of the strife begun | D |
| When Liberty's second April sun | D |
| Was bright on our brave old tree | C |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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