Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEFGGHHIJKLMMNNOO PPHHQRSSTTUUPPVVWWXX YYYZZYYHH YYA2A2B2C2D2E2AAF2F2 F2 G2G2HHWH2I2I2I2J2J2Y Y K2K2YYL2L2YYYYM2M2HH N2O2P2P2I2I2CBYYYYYY Q2Q2YYR2R2AS2YYP2F2T 2U2| September | A |
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| Weep for the martyr Strew his bier | B |
| With the last roses of the year | C |
| Shadow the land with sables knell | D |
| The harsh tongued melancholy bell | D |
| Beat the dull muffled drum and flaunt | E |
| The drooping banner let the chant | F |
| Of the deep throated organ sob | G |
| One voice one sorrow one heart throb | G |
| From land to land from sea to sea | H |
| The huge world quires his elegy | H |
| Tears love and honor he shall have | I |
| Through ages keeping green his grave | J |
| Too late approved too early lost | K |
| His story is the people's boast | L |
| Tough sinewed offspring of the soil | M |
| Of peasant lineage reared to toil | M |
| In Europe he had been a thing | N |
| To the glebe tethered here a king | N |
| Crowned not for some transcendent gift | O |
| Genius of power that may lift | O |
| A Caesar or a Bonaparte | P |
| Up to the starred goal of his heart | P |
| But that he was the epitome | H |
| Of all the people aim to be | H |
| Were they his dying trust He was | Q |
| No less their model and their glass | R |
| In him the daily traits were viewed | S |
| Of the undistinguished multitude | S |
| Brave as the silent myriads are | T |
| Crushed by the juggernaut world car | T |
| Strong with the people's strength yet mild | U |
| Simple and tender as a child | U |
| Wise with the wisdom of the heart | P |
| Able in council field and mart | P |
| Nor lacking in the lambent gleam | V |
| The great soul's final stamp the beam | V |
| Of genial fun the humor sane | W |
| Wherewith the hero sports with pain | W |
| His virtues hold within the span | X |
| Of his obscurest fellow man | X |
| To live without reproach to die | Y |
| Without a fear in these words lie | Y |
| His highest aims for none too high | Y |
| No triumph his beyond the reach | Z |
| Of patient courage kindly speech | Z |
| And yet so brave the soul outbreathed | Y |
| The great example he bequeathed | Y |
| Were all to follow we should see | H |
| A universal chivalry | H |
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| His trust the People They respond | Y |
| From Maine to Florida beyond | Y |
| The sea walled continent's broad scope | A2 |
| Honor his pledge confirm his hope | A2 |
| Hark over seas the echo hence | B2 |
| The nations do him reverence | C2 |
| An Empress lays her votive wreath | D2 |
| Where peoples weep with bated breath | E2 |
| The world clock strikes a fateful hour | A |
| Bright with fair portents big with power | A |
| The first since history's course has run | F2 |
| When kings' and peoples' cause is one | F2 |
| Those mourn a brother these a son | F2 |
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| O how he loved them That gray morn | G2 |
| When his wound wasted form was borne | G2 |
| North from the White House to the sea | H |
| Lifting his tired lids thankfully | H |
| How good he murmured in his pain | W |
| To see the people once again | H2 |
| Oh how they loved him They stood there | I2 |
| Thronging the road the street the square | I2 |
| With hushed lips locked in silent prayer | I2 |
| Uncovered heads and streaming eyes | J2 |
| Breathless as when a father dies | J2 |
| The records of the ghostly ride | Y |
| Past town and field at morning tide | Y |
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| When life's full stream is wont to gush | K2 |
| Through all its ways with boisterous rush | K2 |
| The records note that once a hound | Y |
| Had barked and once was heard the sound | Y |
| Of cart wheels rumbling on the stones | L2 |
| And once mid stifled sobs and groans | L2 |
| One man dared audibly lament | Y |
| And cried God bless the president | Y |
| Always the waiting crowds to send | Y |
| A God speed to his journey's end | Y |
| The anxious whisper brow of gloom | M2 |
| As in a sickness sacred room | M2 |
| Till his ear drank with ecstasy | H |
| The rhythmic thunders of the sea | H |
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| Tears for the smitten fatherless | N2 |
| The wife's the mother's life distress | O2 |
| To whom the million throated moan | P2 |
| From throne and hut may not atone | P2 |
| For one hushed voice one empty chair | I2 |
| One presence missing everywhere | I2 |
| But only words of joy and sheer | C |
| The people from his grave shall hear | B |
| Were they not worthy of his trust | Y |
| From whose seed sprang the sacred dust | Y |
| He broke the bars that separate | Y |
| The humble from the high estate | Y |
| And heirs of empire round his bed | Y |
| Mourn with the disinherited | Y |
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| Oh toil worn patient Heart that bleeds | Q2 |
| Whose martyrdom even his exceeds | Q2 |
| Wronged cursed despised misunderstood | Y |
| Oh all enduring multitude | Y |
| Rejoice amid you tears rejoice | R2 |
| There issues from this grave a voice | R2 |
| Proclaiming your long night is o'er | A |
| Your day dawn breaks from shore to shore | S2 |
| You have redeemed his pledge remained | Y |
| Secure erect and self sustained | Y |
| Holding more dear one thing alone | P2 |
| Even than the blood of dearest son | F2 |
| Revering with religious awe | T2 |
| The inviolable might of Law | U2 |
Emma Lazarus
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