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a heroic rispetto for war series
rispettos
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In Regimental Splendor
by adewpearl
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With drums to set the cadence they parade
in uniforms fresh pressed past cheering throngs.
To snappy tunes of Sousa marches played,
they step in time to patriotic songs.
Their buttons gleam and boots with polish shine
as they process as if by grand design.
In regimental splendor they march by
toward battlefields of blood to fall and die.
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Author Notes
The rispetto is a centuries old Italian form written in two quatrains. In a regular rispetto the lines are 8 syllables long in iambic tetrameter. In the heroic rispetto, like this poem, the lines are ten syllables long in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CCDD.
"process" in this poem means to march as in a processional and has the accent on the second syllable
"toward" is one syllable
John Philips Sousa, the March King, was an American composer known mainly for his patriotic and military music.
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