By The Potomac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDCCD| The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves | A |
| By the Potomac and the crisp ground flower | B |
| Tilts its blue cup to catch the passing shower | B |
| The pine cone ripens and the long moss waves | A |
| Its tangled gonfalons above our braves | A |
| Hark what a burst of music from yon bower | B |
| The Southern nightingale that hour by hour | B |
| In its melodious summer madness raves | A |
| Ah with what delicate touches of her hand | C |
| With what sweet voice of bird and rivulet | C |
| And drowsy murmur of the rustling leaf | D |
| Would Nature soothe us bidding us forget | C |
| The awful crime of this distracted land | C |
| And all our heavy heritage of grief | D |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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