Henry Clay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK DLDL MNMN OPOQ DRDR STST UVUV WXYX DZA2Z B2C2B2C2| Wail winds of summer as ye sweep | A |
| The arching skies | B |
| O let your echoes swell with deep | A |
| Woe piercing cries | B |
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| Old ocean with a heavy surge | C |
| Cold black and drear | D |
| Roll thou the solemn note of dirge | C |
| On Europe's ear | D |
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| Sweet stars that calmly purely bright | E |
| Look down below | F |
| O pity with your eyes of light | E |
| A Nation's woe | F |
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| Thou source of day that rollest on | G |
| Though tempests frown | H |
| Thou mind'st us of another sun | I |
| That has gone down | H |
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| Gone down no more may mortal eye | J |
| Its face behold | K |
| Gone down yet leaving on the sky | J |
| A tinge of gold | K |
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| Ah yes Columbia pause to hear | D |
| The note of dread | L |
| 'Twill smite like iron on the ear | D |
| Our Clay is dead | L |
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| Our Clay the patriot statesman sage | M |
| The Nation's pride | N |
| With giant minds of every age | M |
| Identified | N |
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| That form of manliness and strength | O |
| In Senate hall | P |
| Is lying at a fearful length | O |
| Beneath the pall | Q |
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| That voice of eloquence no more | D |
| Suspends the breath | R |
| Its matchless power to charm is o'er | D |
| 'Tis hushed in death | R |
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| Thrice noble spirit can we bow | S |
| And kiss the rod | T |
| With resignation yield thee now | S |
| Back to thy God | T |
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| And where where shall we turn to find | U |
| Now thou 'rt at rest | V |
| A soul so lofty just and kind | U |
| As warmed thy breast | V |
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| We bear thee with a flood of tears | W |
| Unto thy tomb | X |
| There thou must sleep till rolling years | Y |
| Have met their doom | X |
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| But thy bright fame and memory | D |
| Shall send a chime | Z |
| From circling ages down to the | A2 |
| Remotest time | Z |
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| O may thy mantle fall on some | B2 |
| Of this our day | C2 |
| And shed upon the years to come | B2 |
| A happy ray | C2 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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