California's Greeting To Seward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLI NONO POPQWe know him well no need of praise | A |
Or bonfire from the windy hill | B |
To light to softer paths and ways | A |
The world worn man we honor still | B |
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No need to quote the truths he spoke | C |
That burned through years of war and shame | D |
While History carves with surer stroke | C |
Across our map his noonday fame | D |
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No need to bid him show the scars | E |
Of blows dealt by the Scaean gate | F |
Who lived to pass its shattered bars | E |
And see the foe capitulate | G |
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Who lived to turn his slower feet | H |
Toward the western setting sun | I |
To see his harvest all complete | H |
His dream fulfilled his duty done | I |
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The one flag streaming from the pole | J |
The one faith borne from sea to sea | K |
For such a triumph and such goal | J |
Poor must our human greeting be | K |
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Ah rather that the conscious land | L |
In simpler ways salute the Man | M |
The tall pines bowing where they stand | L |
The bared head of El Capitan | I |
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The tumult of the waterfalls | N |
Pohono's kerchief in the breeze | O |
The waving from the rocky walls | N |
The stir and rustle of the trees | O |
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Till lapped in sunset skies of hope | P |
In sunset lands by sunset seas | O |
The Young World's Premier treads the slope | P |
Of sunset years in calm and peace | Q |
Bret Harte
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