Rejoicings After The Battle Of Inkerman.* Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFAFA GHGHDGDG AAAAAIJI KLMNOPOP AQAQARAR ASAFTAUA| Won by the Allies during the Crimean war though with great losses in killed and wounded | A |
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| Rejoice the fearful day is o'er | B |
| For the victors and the slain | C |
| Our cannon proclaim from shore to shore | D |
| The Allies have won again | E |
| Let our joy bells ring out music clear | F |
| The gayest they've ever pealed | A |
| Let bonfires flames the dark night cheer | F |
| We are masters of the field | A |
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| But list dost hear that mournful wail | G |
| 'Bove the joyous revelry | H |
| Rising from hillside and lowly vale | G |
| Say what can its meaning be | H |
| From Erin's sunny emerald shore | D |
| It trembles upon the gale | G |
| And rises with the torrent's roar | D |
| From the birth place of the Gael | G |
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| Fair Albion too in every spot | A |
| Of thy land of promise wide | A |
| Is heard that dirge for the mournful lot | A |
| Of thy soldier sons thy pride | A |
| Them shall no bugle at dawn of day | A |
| Arouse from their quiet sleep | I |
| Them shall no charger with shrill neigh | J |
| Bear off to the hillside steep | I |
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| 'Mid the dead and dying stretched unknown | K |
| On Crimea's blood stained earth | L |
| Lie the household gods of many a home | M |
| The lights of many a hearth | N |
| While vainly woman's weeping voice | O |
| Calls on each well loved one | P |
| The tender wife on her girlhoods choice | O |
| The fond mother on her son | P |
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| And not only from the peasant's cot | A |
| Comes that mournful dirge like cry | Q |
| 'Tis heard unto all a common lot | A |
| Where dwell the great and high | Q |
| And tears fall fast for the last lost child | A |
| Of many a noble race | R |
| Who has perished in that struggle wild | A |
| And left none to fill his place | R |
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| Yet if above our laurels bright | A |
| Falls many a bitter tear | S |
| Still still may we find a gleam of light | A |
| Our stricken hearts to cheer | F |
| They have fallen in the country's cause | T |
| That their youth and manhood nursed | A |
| They have fallen true to honor's laws | U |
| In a sacred strife and just | A |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
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