The Battle Of Inkermann Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBEE FGHH IIJJ KKLM BBBB NNNN LOPP NNAQ RGNN SSNNML| 'Twas in the year of and on the th November | A |
| Which Britain will no doubt long remember | A |
| When the Russians plotted to drive the British army into the sea | B |
| But at the bayonet charge the British soon made them flee | B |
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| With fourteen hundred British fifteen thousand Russians were driven back | C |
| At half past seven o'clock in the morning they made the attack | C |
| But the Grenadiers and Scottish Fusilier Guards seven hundred strong | D |
| Moved rapidly and fearlessly all along | D |
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| And their rifles were levelled ready for a volley | B |
| But the damp had silenced their fire which made the men feel melancholy | B |
| But the Russians were hurled down the ravine in a disordered mass | E |
| At the charge of the bayonet an inspiring sight nothing could it surpass | E |
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| General Cathcart thought he could strike a blow at an unbroken Russian line | F |
| Oh the scene was really very sublime | G |
| Because hand to hand they fought with a free will | H |
| And with one magnificent charge they hurled the Russians down the hill | H |
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| But while General Cathcart without any dread | I |
| Was collecting his scattered forces he fell dead | I |
| Pierced to the heart with a Russian ball | J |
| And his men lamented sorely his downfall | J |
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| While the Duke of Cambridge with the colours of two Regiments of Guards | K |
| Presses forward and no obstacle his courage retards | K |
| And with him about one hundred men | L |
| And to keep up their courage he was singing a hymn to them | M |
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| Then hand to hand they fought the Russians heroically | B |
| Which was a most inspiring sight to see | B |
| Captain Burnaby with thirteen Guardsmen fighting manfully | B |
| And they drove the Russians down the hillside right speedily | B |
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| The French and Zouaves aided the British in the fight | N |
| And they shot down and killed the Russians left and right | N |
| And the Chasseurs also joined in the fight | N |
| And the Russians fell back in great afright | N |
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| Then the Russians tried again and again | L |
| To drive the British from the slopes of Inkermann but all in vain | O |
| For the French and British beat them back without dismay | P |
| Until at last the Russians had to give way | P |
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| And the French and British fought side by side | N |
| Until the Russians no longer the bayonet charge could abide | N |
| And the Russians were literally scorched by the musketry fire | A |
| And in a short time the Russians were forced to retire | Q |
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| Then the British and the French pursued them into the depths of the ravine | R |
| Oh it was a grand sight the scene was really sublime | G |
| And at half past one o'clock the Russians were defeated | N |
| And from the field of Inkermann they sullenly retreated | N |
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| Then the Battle of Inkermann was won | S |
| And from thefield the Russians were forced to run | S |
| But the loss of the British was terrible to behold | N |
| The dead lay in heaps stiff and cold | N |
| While thousands of Russians were dying with no one to aid them | M |
| Alas Pitiful to relate thousands of innocent men | L |
William Topaz Mcgonagall
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