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