Ashes Of Soldiers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH EIJDKLJ DDMNOD PQRD STUDVWD XY ZDV RID PDI A2DO LLJ NAD| Again a verse for sake of you | A |
| You soldiers in the ranks you Volunteers | B |
| Who bravely fighting silent fell | C |
| To fill unmention'd graves | D |
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| ASHES of soldiers | E |
| As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought | F |
| Lo the war resumes again to my sense your shapes | G |
| And again the advance of armies | H |
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| Noiseless as mists and vapors | E |
| From their graves in the trenches ascending | I |
| From the cemeteries all through Virginia and Tennessee | J |
| From every point of the compass out of the countless unnamed graves | D |
| In wafted clouds in myraids large or squads of twos or threes or | K |
| single ones they come | L |
| And silently gather round me | J |
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| Now sound no note O trumpeters | D |
| Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses | D |
| With sabres drawn and glist'ning and carbines by their thighs ah | M |
| my brave horsemen | N |
| My handsome tan faced horsemen what life what joy and pride | O |
| With all the perils were yours | D |
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| Nor you drummers neither at reveille at dawn | P |
| Nor the long roll alarming the camp nor even the muffled beat for a | Q |
| burial | R |
| Nothing from you this time O drummers bearing my warlike drums | D |
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| But aside from these and the marts of wealth and the crowded | S |
| promenade | T |
| Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and | U |
| voiceless | D |
| The slain elate and alive again the dust and debris alive | V |
| I chant this chant of my silent soul in the name of all dead | W |
| soldiers | D |
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| Faces so pale with wondrous eyes very dear gather closer yet | X |
| Draw close but speak not | Y |
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| Phantoms of countless lost | Z |
| Invisible to the rest henceforth become my companions | D |
| Follow me ever desert me not while I live | V |
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| Sweet are the blooming cheeks of the living sweet are the musical | R |
| voices sounding | I |
| But sweet ah sweet are the dead with their silent eyes | D |
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| Dearest comrades all is over and long gone | P |
| But love is not over and what love O comrades | D |
| Perfume from battle fields rising up from foetor arising | I |
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| Perfume therefore my chant O love immortal Love | A2 |
| Give me to bathe the memories of all dead soldiers | D |
| Shroud them embalm them cover them all over with tender pride | O |
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| Perfume all make all wholesome | L |
| Make these ashes to nourish and blossom | L |
| O love O chant solve all fructify all with the last chemistry | J |
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| Give me exhaustless make me a fountain | N |
| That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew | A |
| For the ashes of all dead soldiers | D |
Walt Whitman
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