The Passing Race Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDCDD A EDEDDFDFF A GHGHHIHII J BKBKKLKLL| I | A |
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| Silent as ever stoic as of old | B |
| The scattered nomads of that dusky race | C |
| Whose story shall forever be untold | B |
| Sit mid the ruins of their dwelling place | C |
| And watch the white man's empire grow apace | C |
| Passive as one who knows his earthly doom | D |
| And only waits with calm but hopeless face | C |
| The while the seasons go with blight and bloom | D |
| So live they day by day beside their nation's tomb | D |
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| II | A |
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| In the deep woods and by the rolling streams | E |
| They made their home and knew no other clime | D |
| They lived their lives and dreamed barbaric dreams | E |
| Nor heard the menace of relentless Time | D |
| As on his thunderous legions swept sublime | D |
| Bearing the torch of progress through the night | F |
| Till lo the primal wastes were all a chime | D |
| With traffic's strange new music and the might | F |
| Of busy hordes that wrought to spread the new born light | F |
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| III | A |
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| They were strange wanderers on life's sad deep | G |
| And paused a moment in God's mystic plan | H |
| A little vigil on time's shores to keep | G |
| Then passed forever from the tribes of man | H |
| They heard a voice and a strange face did scan | H |
| And what of conquest or of kingly sway | I |
| Had filled their dreams they gave the white man's clan | H |
| And with the dawning of a wondrous day | I |
| They spread their sails again and voiceless passed away | I |
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| IV | J |
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| Silent as ever stoic as of old | B |
| Their children sit with empty hands to wait | K |
| The sequel that the future shall unfold | B |
| The unwritten Finis of remorseless fate | K |
| Vanquished they stand before oblivion's gate | K |
| Knowing that soon the everlasting seal | L |
| Of destiny shall all obliterate | K |
| Their finished story which for woe or weal | L |
| Shall be with Him who writ to hide or to reveal | L |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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