Arise, American! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG CCCC CHCH AIAI JKJK CLCM ECEC NONO NPNP EQER CNCN CNCN| The soul of a nation awaking | A |
| High visions of daybreak I saw | B |
| And the stir of a state the forsaking | A |
| Of sin and the worship of law | B |
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| O pine tree shout And hoarser | C |
| Rush river unto the sea | D |
| Foam fettered and sun flushed a courser | C |
| That feels the prairie free | D |
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| Our birth star beckons to trial | E |
| All faith of the far fled years | F |
| Ere scorn was our share and denial | E |
| Or laughter for patriot's tears | G |
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| And lo Faith comes forth the finer | C |
| From trampled thickets of fire | C |
| And the orient opens diviner | C |
| Before her the heaven lifts higher | C |
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| O deep sweet eyes and severer | C |
| Than steel he knoweth who comes | H |
| Thy hero bend thine eyes nearer | C |
| Now wilder than battle drums | H |
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| Thy glance in his blood is stirring | A |
| His heart is alive like the main | I |
| When the roweled winds are spurring | A |
| And the broad tides shoreward strain | I |
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| O hero art thou among us | J |
| O helper hidest thou still | K |
| Why hath he no anthem sung us | J |
| Why waiteth nor worketh our will | K |
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| For still a smirk or a favor | C |
| Can hide the face of the false | L |
| And the old time Faith seeks braver | C |
| Upholders and sacreder walls | M |
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| Yea cunning is Christian evil | E |
| And subtle the conscience' snare | C |
| But virtue's volcanic upheaval | E |
| Shall cast fine device to the air | C |
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| Too long has the land's soul slumbered | N |
| And triumph bred dangerous ease | O |
| Our victories all unnumbered | N |
| Our feet on the down bowed seas | O |
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| Come then simple and stalwart | N |
| Life of the earlier days | P |
| Come Far better than all were it | N |
| Our precepts our prayers and our lays | P |
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| That the heart of the people should tremble | E |
| Accord to some mighty one's voice | Q |
| The helpless atoms assemble | E |
| In music their valor to poise | R |
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| Come to us mountain dweller | C |
| Leader wherever thou art | N |
| Skilled from thy cradle a queller | C |
| Of serpents and sound to the heart | N |
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| Modest and mighty and tender | C |
| Man of an iron mold | N |
| Learned or unlearned our defender | C |
| American souled | N |
George Parsons Lathrop
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