At The Tomb Of Napoleon Before The Elections In America - November, 1912 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBABCDBDCI stood beside his sepulchre whose fame | A |
Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast | B |
Now glows far off as storm clouds overpast | B |
Glow in the sunset flushed with glorious flame | A |
Has Nature marred his mould Can Art acclaim | A |
No hero now no man with whom men side | B |
As with their hearts' high needs personified | B |
There are will say One such our lips could name | A |
Columbia gave him birth Him Genius most | B |
Gifted to rule Against the world's great man | C |
Lift their low calumny and sneering cries | D |
The Pharisaic multitude the host | B |
Of piddling slanderers whose little eyes | D |
Know not what greatness is and never can | C |
Alan Seeger
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