Yankee Doodle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCC CDEDFGHGIJGGCEKECGGG LMIMCGNGCDEDCECE OCHCEFCFHEGEPGCGQCHC EDED| This poem is intended as a description of a sort of | A |
| Blashfield mural painting on the sky To be sung to the | B |
| tune of Yankee Doodle yet in a slower more orotund | C |
| fashion It is presumably an exercise for an entertainment | C |
| on the evening of Washington's Birthday | C |
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| Dawn this morning burned all red | C |
| Watching them in wonder | D |
| There I saw our spangled flag | E |
| Divide the clouds asunder | D |
| Then there followed Washington | F |
| Ah he rode from glory | G |
| Cold and mighty as his name | H |
| And stern as Freedom's story | G |
| Unsubdued by burning dawn | I |
| Led his continentals | J |
| Vast they were and strange to see | G |
| In gray old regimentals | G |
| Marching still with bleeding feet | C |
| Bleeding feet and jesting | E |
| Marching from the judgment throne | K |
| With energy unresting | E |
| How their merry quickstep played | C |
| Silver sharp sonorous | G |
| Piercing through with prophecy | G |
| The demons' rumbling chorus | G |
| Behold the ancient powers of sin | L |
| And slavery before them | M |
| Sworn to stop the glorious dawn | I |
| The pit black clouds hung o'er them | M |
| Plagues that rose to blast the day | C |
| Fiend and tiger faces | G |
| Monsters plotting bloodshed for | N |
| The patient toiling races | G |
| Round the dawn their cannon raged | C |
| Hurling bolts of thunder | D |
| Yet before our spangled flag | E |
| Their host was cut asunder | D |
| Like a mist they fled away | C |
| Ended wrath and roaring | E |
| Still our restless soldier host | C |
| From East to West went pouring | E |
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| High beside the sun of noon | O |
| They bore our banner splendid | C |
| All its days of stain and shame | H |
| And heaviness were ended | C |
| Men were swelling now the throng | E |
| From great and lowly station | F |
| Valiant citizens to day | C |
| Of every tribe and nation | F |
| Not till night their rear guard came | H |
| Down the west went marching | E |
| And left behind the sunset rays | G |
| In beauty overarching | E |
| War god banners lead us still | P |
| Rob enslave and harry | G |
| Let us rather choose to day | C |
| The flag the angels carry | G |
| Flag we love but brighter far | Q |
| Soul of it made splendid | C |
| Let its days of stain and shame | H |
| And heaviness be ended | C |
| Let its fifes fill all the sky | E |
| Redeemed souls marching after | D |
| Hills and mountains shake with song | E |
| While seas roll on in laughter | D |
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