In Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAC DEDEDFGH IJIJIJKL MNMNMNOO APAPQPRR STSTSTOO UOUOUOVW| Since 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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