Fort Wagner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE F GHGHIJIJ F KLKLGDGD M NONOCPCP M MQMQRSRS M TUTUVWVX| I Glory unto the gallant boys who stood | A |
| At Wagner and unflinching sought the van | B |
| Dealing fierce blows and shedding precious blood | C |
| For homes as precious and dear rights of man | B |
| They've won the meed and they shall have the glory | D |
| Song with melodious memories shall repeat | E |
| The legend which shall grow to themes for story | D |
| Told through long ages and forever sweet | E |
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| II | F |
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| High honor to our youth our sons and brothers | G |
| Georgians and Carolinians where they stand | H |
| They will not shame their birthrights or their mothers | G |
| But keep through storm the bulwarks of the land | H |
| They feel that they must conquer Not to do it | I |
| Were worse than death perdition Should they fail | J |
| The innocent races yet unborn shall rue it | I |
| The whole world feel the wound and nations wail | J |
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| III | F |
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| No They must conquer in the breach or perish | K |
| Assured in the last consciousness of breath | L |
| That love shall deck their graves and memory cherish | K |
| Their deeds with honors that shall sweeten death | L |
| They shall have trophies in long future hours | G |
| And loving recollections which shall be | D |
| Green as the summer leaves and fresh as flowers | G |
| That through all seasons bloom eternally | D |
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| IV | M |
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| Their memories shall be monuments to rise | N |
| Next those of mightiest martyrs of the past | O |
| Beacons when angry tempests sweep the skies | N |
| And feeble souls bend crouching to the blast | O |
| A shrine for thee young Cheves well devoted | C |
| Most worthy of a great illustrious sire | P |
| A niche for thee young Haskell nobly noted | C |
| When skies and seas around thee shook with fire | P |
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| V | M |
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| And others as well chronicled shall be | M |
| What though they fell with unrecorded name | Q |
| They live among the archives of the free | M |
| With proudest title to undying fame | Q |
| The unchisell'd marble under which they sleep | R |
| Shall tell of heroes fearless still of fate | S |
| Not asking if their memories shall keep | R |
| But if they nobly served and saved the State | S |
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| VI | M |
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| For thee young Fortress Wagner thou shalt wear | T |
| Green laurels worthy of the names that now | U |
| Thy sister forts of Moultrie Sumter bear | T |
| See that thou lift'st for aye as proud a brow | U |
| And thou shalt be to future generations | V |
| A trophied monument whither men shall come | W |
| In homage and report to distant nations | V |
| A SHRINE which foes shall never make a TOMB | X |
William Gilmore Simms
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