Eutaw Springs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH IEIJ KLKL MNGN OPOP QRQR| At Eutaw Springs the valiant died | A |
| Their limbs with dust are covered o'er | B |
| Weep on ye springs your tearful tide | A |
| How many heroes are no more | C |
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| If in this wreck of ruin they | D |
| Can yet be thought to claim a tear | E |
| O smite thy gentle breast and say | D |
| The friends of freedom slumber here | F |
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| Thou who shalt trace this bloody plain | G |
| If goodness rules thy generous breast | H |
| Sigh for the wasted rural reign | G |
| Sigh for the shepherds sunk to rest | H |
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| Stranger their humble groves adorn | I |
| You too may fall and ask a tear | E |
| 'Tis not the beauty of the morn | I |
| That proves the evening shall be clear | J |
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| They saw their injured country's woe | K |
| The flaming town the wasted field | L |
| Then rushed to meet the insulting foe | K |
| They took the spear but left the shield | L |
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| Led by thy conquering standards Greene | M |
| The Britons they compelled to fly | N |
| None distant viewed the fatal plain | G |
| None grieved in such a cause to die | N |
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| But like the Parthian famed of old | O |
| Who flying still their arrows threw | P |
| These routed Britons full as bold | O |
| Retreated and retreating slew | P |
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| Now rest in peace our patriot band | Q |
| Though far from nature's limits thrown | R |
| We trust they find a happier land | Q |
| A bright Phoebus of their own | R |
Philip Freneau
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