Currents. (little Poems In Prose.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D A E F| Vast oceanic movements the flux and reflux of immeasurable tides oversweep our continent | A |
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| From the far Caucasian steppes from the squalid Ghettos of Europe | B |
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| From Odessa and Bucharest from Kief and Ekaterinoslav | C |
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| Hark to the cry of the exiles of Babylon the voice of Rachel mourning for her children of Israel lamenting for Zion | D |
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| And lo like a turbid stream the long pent flood bursts the dykes of oppression and rushes hitherward | A |
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| Unto her ample breast the generous mother of nations welcomes them | E |
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| The herdsman of Canaan and the seed of Jerusalem's royal shepherd renew their youth amid the pastoral plains of Texas and the golden valleys of the Sierras | F |
Emma Lazarus
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