Maceo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG IJIJ DKLK CMNM AOPO QRAR STIT UVIV ARIR AJWJ IXIX AIII IYIY| Maceo dead a thrill of sorrow | A |
| Through our hearts in sadness ran | B |
| When we felt in one sad hour | C |
| That the world had lost a man | B |
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| He had clasped unto his bosom | D |
| The sad fortunes of his land | E |
| Held the cause for which he perished | F |
| With a firm unfaltering hand | E |
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| On his lips the name of freedom | D |
| Fainted with his latest breath | G |
| Cuba Libre was his watchword | H |
| Passing through the gates of death | G |
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| With the light of God around us | I |
| Why this agony and strife | J |
| With the cross of Christ before us | I |
| Why this fearful waste of life | J |
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| Must the pathway unto freedom | D |
| Ever mark a crimson line | K |
| And the eyes of wayward mortals | L |
| Always close to light divine | K |
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| Must the hearts of fearless valor | C |
| Fail 'mid crime and cruel wrong | M |
| When the world has read of heroes | N |
| Brave and earnest true and strong | M |
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| Men to stay the floods of sorrow | A |
| Sweeping round each war crushed heart | O |
| Men to say to strife and carnage | P |
| From our world henceforth depart | O |
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| God of peace and God of nations | Q |
| Haste oh haste the glorious day | R |
| When the reign of our Redeemer | A |
| O'er the world shall have its sway | R |
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| When the swords now blood encrusted | S |
| Spears that reap the battle field | T |
| Shall be changed to higher service | I |
| Helping earth rich harvests yield | T |
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| Where the widow weeps in anguish | U |
| And the orphan bows his head | V |
| Grant that peace and joy and gladness | I |
| May like holy angels tread | V |
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| Pity oh our God the sorrow | A |
| Of thy world from thee astray | R |
| Lead us from the paths of madness | I |
| Unto Christ the living way | R |
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| Year by year the world grows weary | A |
| 'Neath its weight of sin and strife | J |
| Though the hands once pierced and bleeding | W |
| Offer more abundant life | J |
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| May the choral song of angels | I |
| Heard upon Judea's plain | X |
| Sound throughout the earth the tidings | I |
| Of that old and sweet refrain | X |
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| Till our world so sad and weary | A |
| Finds the balmy rest of peace | I |
| Peace to silence all her discords | I |
| Peace till war and crime shall cease | I |
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| Peace to fall like gentle showers | I |
| Or on parch eacute d flowers dew | Y |
| Till our hearts proclaim with gladness | I |
| Lo He maketh all things new | Y |
Frances E. W. Harper
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