When A People Reach The Top Of A Hill, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEHGG IJKLJGGMNGG OGPQRGGSTGG| When a people reach the top of a hill | A |
| Then does God lean toward them | B |
| Shortens tongues and lengthens arms | C |
| A vision of their dead comes to the weak | D |
| The moon shall not be too old | E |
| Before the new battalions rise | F |
| Blue battalions | G |
| The moon shall not be too old | E |
| When the children of change shall fall | H |
| Before the new battalions | G |
| The blue battalions | G |
| - | |
| Mistakes and virtues will be trampled deep | I |
| A church and a thief shall fall together | J |
| A sword will come at the bidding of the eyeless | K |
| The God led turning only to beckon | L |
| Swinging a creed like a censer | J |
| At the head of the new battalions | G |
| Blue battalions | G |
| March the tools of nature's impulse | M |
| Men born of wrong men born of right | N |
| Men of the new battalions | G |
| The blue battalions | G |
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| The clang of swords is Thy wisdom | O |
| The wounded make gestures like Thy Son's | G |
| The feet of mad horses is one part | P |
| Ay another is the hand of a mother on the brow of a youth | Q |
| Then swift as they charge through a shadow | R |
| The men of the new battalions | G |
| Blue battalions | G |
| God lead them high God lead them far | S |
| God lead them far God lead them high | T |
| These new battalions | G |
| The blue battalions | G |
Stephen Crane
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