Poet Walt Whitman

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Dirge For Two Veterans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEEE FGCH CCIJ KLKM GNOP CQRC PPSJ TUVW

THE last sunbeamA
Lightly falls from the finish'd SabbathB
On the pavement here and there beyond it is lookingC
Down a new made double graveD
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Lo the moon ascendingC
Up from the east the silvery round moonE
Beautiful over the house tops ghastly phantom moonE
Immense and silent moonE
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I see a sad processionF
And I hear the sound of coming full key'd buglesG
All the channels of the city streets they're floodingC
As with voices and with tearsH
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I hear the great drums poundingC
And the small drums steady whirringC
And every blow of the great convulsive drumsI
Strikes me through and throughJ
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For the son is brought with the fatherK
In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fellL
Two veterans son and father dropt togetherK
And the double grave awaits themM
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Now nearer blow the buglesG
And the drums strike more convulsiveN
And the day light o'er the pavement quite has fadedO
And the strong dead march enwraps meP
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In the eastern sky up buoyingC
The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin'dQ
'Tis some mother's large transparent faceR
In heaven brighter growingC
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O strong dead march you please meP
O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe meP
O my soldiers twain O my veterans passing to burialS
What I have I also give youJ
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The moon gives you lightT
And the bugles and the drums give you musicU
And my heart O my soldiers my veteransV
My heart gives you loveW

Walt Whitman



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