Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFD GGHG IIJI KKLK| ''Let there be Liberty ' God said and lo | A |
| The red skies all were luminous The glow | A |
| Struck first Columbia's kindling mountain peaks | B |
| One hundred and eleven years ago ' | C |
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| So sang a patriot whom once I saw | D |
| Descending Bunker's holy hill With awe | E |
| I noted that he shone with sacred light | F |
| Like Moses with the tables of the Law | D |
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| One hundred and eleven years O small | G |
| And paltry period compared with all | G |
| The tide of centuries that flowed and ebbed | H |
| To etch Yosemite's divided wall | G |
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| Ah Liberty they sing you always young | I |
| Whose harps are in your adoration strung | I |
| Each swears you are his countrywoman too | J |
| And speak no language but his mother tongue | I |
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| And truly lass although with shout and horn | K |
| Man has all hailed you from creation's morn | K |
| I cannot think you old I think indeed | L |
| You are by twenty centuries unborn | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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