In Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAC DEDEDFGH IJIJIJKL MNMNMNOO APAPQPRR STSTSTOO UOUOUOVWSince that day till now our life is one unbroken | A |
paradise We live a true brotherly life Every evening | B |
after supper we take a seat under the mighty oak and sing | B |
our songs Extract from a letter of a Russian | A |
refugee in Texas | C |
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Twilight is here soft breezes bow the grass | D |
Day's sounds of various toil break slowly off | E |
The yoke freed oxen low the patient ass | D |
Dips his dry nostril in the cool deep trough | E |
Up from the prairie the tanned herdsmen pass | D |
With frothy pails guiding with voices rough | F |
Their udder lightened kine Fresh smells of earth | G |
The rich black furrows of the glebe send forth | H |
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After the Southern day of heavy toil | I |
How good to lie with limbs relaxed brows bare | J |
To evening's fan and watch the smoke wreaths coil | I |
Up from one's pipe stem through the rayless air | J |
So deem these unused tillers of the soil | I |
Who stretched beneath the shadowing oak tree stare | J |
Peacefully on the star unfolding skies | K |
And name their life unbroken paradise | L |
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The hounded stag that has escaped the pack | M |
And pants at ease within a thick leaved dell | N |
The unimprisoned bird that finds the track | M |
Through sun bathed space to where his fellows dwell | N |
The martyr granted respite from the rack | M |
The death doomed victim pardoned from his cell | N |
Such only know the joy these exiles gain | O |
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain | O |
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Strange faces theirs wherethrough the Orient sun | A |
Gleams from the eyes and glows athwart the skin | P |
Grave lines of studious thought and purpose run | A |
From curl crowned forehead to dark bearded chin | P |
And over all the seal is stamped thereon | Q |
Of anguish branded by a world of sin | P |
In fire and blood through ages on their name | R |
Their seal of glory and the Gentiles' shame | R |
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Freedom to love the law that Moses brought | S |
To sing the songs of David and to think | T |
The thoughts Gabirol to Spinoza taught | S |
Freedom to dig the common earth to drink | T |
The universal air for this they sought | S |
Refuge o'er wave and continent to link | T |
Egypt with Texas in their mystic chain | O |
And truth's perpetual lamp forbid to wane | O |
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Hark through the quiet evening air their song | U |
Floats forth with wild sweet rhythm and glad refrain | O |
They sing the conquest of the spirit strong | U |
The soul that wrests the victory from pain | O |
The noble joys of manhood that belong | U |
To comrades and to brothers In their strain | O |
Rustle of palms and Eastern streams one hears | V |
And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears | W |
Emma Lazarus
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