Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ADEF CGGA GGGA GDD| 'Talk of pluck ' pursued the Sailor | A |
| Set at euchre on his elbow | B |
| 'I was on the wharf at Charleston | C |
| Just ashore from off the runner | A |
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| 'It was grey and dirty weather | A |
| And I heard a drum go rolling | D |
| Rub a dubbing in the distance | E |
| Awful dour like and defiant | F |
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| 'In and out among the cotton | C |
| Mud and chains and stores and anchors | G |
| Tramped a squad of battered scarecrows | G |
| Poor old Dixie's bottom dollar | A |
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| 'Some had shoes but all had rifles | G |
| Them that wasn't bald was beardless | G |
| And the drum was rolling Dixie | G |
| And they stepped to it like men sir | A |
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| 'Rags and tatters belts and bayonets | G |
| On they swung the drum a rolling | D |
| Mum and sour It looked like fighting | D |
| And they meant it too by thunder ' | - |
William Ernest Henley
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