Our Hero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJCJ KLKL CMNM CLOL KOPQ RSIS TUOU VWOW GXYX GJYJ| Onward to her destination | A |
| O'er the stream the Hannah sped | B |
| When a cry of consternation | A |
| Smote and chilled our hearts with dread | B |
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| Wildly leaping madly sweeping | C |
| All relentless in their sway | D |
| Like a band of cruel demons | E |
| Flames were closing 'round our way | D |
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| Oh the horror of those moments | F |
| Flames above and waves below | G |
| Oh the agony of ages | H |
| Crowded in one hour of woe | G |
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| Fainter grew our hearts with anguish | I |
| In that hour with peril rife | J |
| When we saw the pilot flying | C |
| Terror stricken for his life | J |
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| Then a man uprose before us | K |
| We had once despised his race | L |
| But we saw a lofty purpose | K |
| Lighting up his darkened face | L |
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| While the flames were madly roaring | C |
| With a courage grand and high | M |
| Forth he rushed unto our rescue | N |
| Strong to suffer brave to die | M |
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| Helplessly the boat was drifting | C |
| Death was staring in each face | L |
| When he grasped the fallen rudder | O |
| Took the pilot's vacant place | L |
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| Could he save us Would he save us | K |
| All his hope of life give o'er | O |
| Could he hold that fated vessel | P |
| 'Till she reached the nearer shore | Q |
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| All our hopes and fears were centered | R |
| 'Round his strong unfaltering hand | S |
| If he failed us we must perish | I |
| Perish just in sight of land | S |
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| Breathlessly we watched and waited | T |
| While the flames were raging fast | U |
| When our anguish changed to rapture | O |
| We were saved yes saved at last | U |
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| Never strains of sweetest music | V |
| Brought to us more welcome sound | W |
| Than the grating of that steamer | O |
| When her keel had touched the ground | W |
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| But our faithful martyr hero | G |
| Through a fiery pathway trod | X |
| Till he laid his valiant spirit | Y |
| On the bosom of his God | X |
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| Fame has never crowned a hero | G |
| On the crimson fields of strife | J |
| Grander nobler than that pilot | Y |
| Yielding up for us his life | J |
Frances E. W. Harper
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