Our Hero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJCJ KLKL CMNM CLOL KOPQ RSIS TUOU VWOnward to her destination | A |
O'er the stream that 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 up rose 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 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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