Arise, American! (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG CCCC CHCH AIAI JKJK CLCL MIMI ECEC MNMN EMEM CMCM CMCM| The soul of a nation awaking | A |
| High visions of daybreak I saw | B |
| A people renewed the forsaking | A |
| Of sin and the worship of law | B |
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| Sing pine tree shout to the hoarser | C |
| Response of the jubilant sea | D |
| Rush river foam flecked like a courser | C |
| Warn all who are honest and free | D |
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| Our birth star beckons to trial | E |
| The faith of the far fled years | F |
| Ere scorn was our share and denial | E |
| Or laughter for patriots' tears | G |
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| And Faith shall come forth the finer | C |
| From trampled thickets of fire | C |
| And the orient open diviner | C |
| Before her the heaven rise higher | C |
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| O deep sweet eyes but severer | C |
| Than steel See you yet where he comes | H |
| Our hero Bend your glance nearer | C |
| Speak Faith For as wakening drums | H |
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| Your voice shall set his blood stirring | A |
| His heart shall grow strong like the main | I |
| When the rowelled winds are spurring | A |
| And the broad tides landward strain | I |
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| O hero art thou among us | J |
| O helper hidest thou still | K |
| Why hast thou no anthem sung us | J |
| Why workest thou not our will | K |
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| For a smirk of the face or a favor | C |
| Still shelters the cheat where he crawls | L |
| And the truth we began with needs braver | C |
| Upholders and loftier walls | L |
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| Too long has the land's soul slumbered | M |
| In wearying dreams of gain | I |
| With prosperous falsity cumbered | M |
| And dulled with bribes as a bane | I |
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| Yes cunning is civilized evil | E |
| And crafty the gold baited snare | C |
| But virtue in fiery upheaval | E |
| May cast fine device to the air | C |
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| Bring us the simple and stalwart | M |
| Purpose of earlier days | N |
| Come Far better than all were't | M |
| Our precepts our pride and our lays | N |
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| That the people in spirit should tremble | E |
| With heed of the God given Word | M |
| That we cease from our boast nor dissemble | E |
| But follow where truth's voice is heard | M |
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| Come to us mountain dweller | C |
| Leader wherever thou art | M |
| Skilled from thy cradle a queller | C |
| Of serpents and sound to the heart | M |
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| Modest and mighty and tender | C |
| Man of an iron mold | M |
| Honest fine grained our defender | C |
| American souled | M |
George Parsons Lathrop
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