By The Waters Of Babylon: Little Poems In Prose: Part 01: The Exodus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBEFCGCHIJCFCKCLM CNOBIPQRSSTUSFSVNWSF XCYCZA2X| August | A |
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| The Spanish noon is a blaze of azure fire and the dusty | B |
| pilgrims crawl like an endless serpent along treeless plains and | C |
| bleached highroads through rock split ravines and castellated | C |
| cathedral shadowed towns | D |
| The hoary patriarch wrinkled as an almond shell bows painfully | B |
| upon his staff The beautiful young mother ivory pale well nigh | E |
| swoons beneath her burden in her large enfolding arms nestles her | F |
| sleeping babe round her knees flock her little ones with bruised | C |
| and bleeding feet Mother shall we soon be there | G |
| The youth with Christ like countenance speaks comfortably to | C |
| father and brother to maiden and wife In his breast his own | H |
| heart is broken | I |
| The halt the blind are amid the train Sturdy pack horses | J |
| laboriously drag the tented wagons wherein lie the sick athirst | C |
| with fever | F |
| The panting mules are urged forward with spur and goad stuffed | C |
| are the heavy saddlebags with the wreckage of ruined homes | K |
| Hark to the tinkling silver bells that adorn the tenderly carried | C |
| silken scrolls | L |
| In the fierce noon glare a lad bears a kindled lamp behind its | M |
| net work of bronze the airs of heaven breathe not upon its faint | C |
| purple star | N |
| Noble and abject learned and simple illustrious and obscure | O |
| plod side by side all brothers now all merged in one routed army | B |
| of misfortune | I |
| Woe to the straggler who falls by the wayside no friend shall | P |
| close his eyes | Q |
| They leave behind the grape the olive and the fig the vines | R |
| they planted the corn they sowed the garden cities of Andalusia | S |
| and Aragon Estremadura and La Mancha of Granada and Castile the | S |
| altar the hearth and the grave of their fathers | T |
| The townsman spits at their garments the shepherd quits his | U |
| flock the peasant his plow to pelt with curses and stones the | S |
| villager sets on their trail his yelping cur | F |
| Oh the weary march oh the uptorn roots of home oh the | S |
| blankness of the receding goal | V |
| Listen to their lamentation They that ate dainty food are | N |
| desolate in the streets they that were reared in scarlet embrace | W |
| dunghills They flee away and wander about Men say among the | S |
| nations they shall no more sojourn there our end is near our | F |
| days are full our doom is come | X |
| Whither shall they turn for the West hath cast them out and | C |
| the East refuseth to receive | Y |
| O bird of the air whisper to the despairing exiles that | C |
| to day to day from the many masted gayly bannered port of Palos | Z |
| sails the world unveiling Genoese to unlock the golden gates of | A2 |
| sunset and bequeath a Continent to Freedom | X |
Emma Lazarus
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