Ode For Memorial Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDFCCCC GHGHIJIJKDKD KLKLMNMNCMCM| Done are the toils and the wearisome marches | A |
| Done is the summons of bugle and drum | B |
| Softly and sweetly the sky over arches | C |
| Shelt'ring a land where Rebellion is dumb | B |
| Dark were the days of the country's derangement | D |
| Sad were the hours when the conflict was on | E |
| But through the gloom of fraternal estrangement | D |
| God sent his light and we welcome the dawn | F |
| O'er the expanse of our mighty dominions | C |
| Sweeping away to the uttermost parts | C |
| Peace the wide flying on untiring pinions | C |
| Bringeth her message of joy to our hearts | C |
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| Ah but this joy which our minds cannot measure | G |
| What did it cost for our fathers to gain | H |
| Bought at the price of the heart's dearest treasure | G |
| Born out of travail and sorrow and pain | H |
| Born in the battle where fleet Death was flying | I |
| Slaying with sabre stroke bloody and fell | J |
| Born where the heroes and martyrs were dying | I |
| Torn by the fury of bullet and shell | J |
| Ah but the day is past silent the rattle | K |
| And the confusion that followed the fight | D |
| Peace to the heroes who died in the battle | K |
| Martyrs to truth and the crowning of Right | D |
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| Out of the blood of a conflict fraternal | K |
| Out of the dust and the dimness of death | L |
| Burst into blossoms of glory eternal | K |
| Flowers that sweeten the world with their breath | L |
| Flowers of charity peace and devotion | M |
| Bloom in the hearts that are empty of strife | N |
| Love that is boundless and broad as the ocean | M |
| Leaps into beauty and fulness of life | N |
| So with the singing of paeans and chorals | C |
| And with the flag flashing high in the sun | M |
| Place on the graves of our heroes the laurels | C |
| Which their unfaltering valor has won | M |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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