The Day's March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEFE GHIH JKLK MMNM OPQP QRLR STQT SUVU QMQM M| The battery grides and jingles | A |
| Mile succeeds to mile | B |
| Shaking the noonday sunshine | C |
| The guns lunge out awhile | B |
| And then are still awhile | B |
| - | |
| We amble along the highway | D |
| The reeking powdery dust | E |
| Ascends and cakes our faces | F |
| With a striped sweaty crust | E |
| - | |
| Under the still sky's violet | G |
| The heat throbs on the air | H |
| The white road's dusty radiance | I |
| Assumes a dark glare | H |
| - | |
| With a head hot and heavy | J |
| And eyes that cannot rest | K |
| And a black heart burning | L |
| In a stifled breast | K |
| - | |
| I sit in the saddle | M |
| I feel the road unroll | M |
| And keep my senses straightened | N |
| Toward to morrow's goal | M |
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| There over unknown meadows | O |
| Which we must reach at last | P |
| Day and night thunders | Q |
| A black and chilly blast | P |
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| Heads forget heaviness | Q |
| Hearts forget spleen | R |
| For by that mighty winnowing | L |
| Being is blown clean | R |
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| Light in the eyes again | S |
| Strength in the hand | T |
| A spirit dares dies forgives | Q |
| And can understand | T |
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| And best Love comes back again | S |
| After grief and shame | U |
| And along the wind of death | V |
| Throws a clean flame | U |
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| The battery grides and jingles | Q |
| Mile succeeds to mile | M |
| Suddenly battering the silence | Q |
| The guns burst out awhile | M |
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| I lift my head and smile | M |
Robert Nichols
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