Republic And Motherland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KLKL FCFC HMHN OPQP BCBC| Written after entering New York Harbor at Daybreak | A |
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| Up the vast harbor with the morning sun | B |
| The ship swept in from sea | C |
| Gigantic towers arose the night was done | B |
| And there stood Liberty | C |
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| Silent the great torch lifted in one hand | D |
| The dawn in her proud eyes | E |
| Silent for all the shouts that vex her land | D |
| Silent hailing the skies | E |
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| Hailing that mightier Kingdom of the Blest | F |
| Our seamen sought of old | G |
| The dream that lured the nations through the West | F |
| The city of sunset gold | G |
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| Saxon and Norman in one wedded soul | H |
| Shook out one flag like fire | I |
| But westward westward moved the gleaming goal | H |
| Westward the vast desire | I |
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| Westward and ever westward ran the call | J |
| They followed the pilgrim sun | B |
| Seeking that land which should enfold them all | J |
| And weld all hearts in one | B |
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| Here on this mightier continent apart | K |
| Here on these rolling plains | L |
| Swells the first throb of that immortal heart | K |
| The pulse of those huge veins | L |
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| Still at these towers our Old World cities jest | F |
| And neither hear nor see | C |
| The brood of gods at that gigantic breast | F |
| The conquering race to be | C |
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| Chosen from many for no sluggard soul | H |
| Confronts that night of stars | M |
| The trumpets of the last Republic roll | H |
| Far off an end to wars | N |
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| An end an end to that wild blood red age | O |
| That made and keeps us blind | P |
| A mightier realm shall be her heritage | Q |
| The kingdom of mankind | P |
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| Chosen from many nations and made one | B |
| But first O Mother from thee | C |
| When following following on that Pilgrim sun | B |
| Thy Mayflower crossed the sea | C |
Alfred Noyes
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