I Pay My Debt For Lafayette And Rochambeau Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEDDE FFFFDGHGHD FIFIJGHGHJ KHKHLMNMNL| His Own Words | A |
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| IN MEMORY OF KIFFIN ROCKWELL | B |
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| Eagle whose fearless | C |
| Flight in vast spaces | D |
| Clove the inane | E |
| While we stood tearless | D |
| White with rapt faces | D |
| In wonder and pain | E |
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| Heights could not awe you | F |
| Depths could not stay you | F |
| Anguished we saw you | F |
| Saw Death way lay you | F |
| Where the storm flings | D |
| Black clouds to thicken | G |
| Round France's defender | H |
| Archangel stricken | G |
| From ramparts of splendor | H |
| Shattered your wings | D |
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| But Lafayette called you | F |
| Rochambeau beckoned | I |
| Duty enthralled you | F |
| For France you had reckoned | I |
| Her gift and your debt | J |
| Dull hearts could harden | G |
| Half gods could palter | H |
| For you never pardon | G |
| If Liberty's altar | H |
| You chanced to forget | J |
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| Stricken archangel | K |
| Ramparts of splendor | H |
| Keep you evangel | K |
| Of souls who surrender | H |
| No banner unfurled | L |
| For ties ever living | M |
| Where Freedom has bound them | N |
| Praise and thanksgiving | M |
| For love which has crowned them | N |
| Love frees the world | L |
Edgar Lee Masters
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