To The Memory Of The Brave Americans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBCD EFEG HIHI JFJK LMLM NOHO PQPQ RSRS| Under 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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