Address To The Flag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOFPQRS TUVWX Q YZA2B2C2D2E2DBF2G2VH 2I2J2K2L2CM2N2O2PQP2 Q2R2BS2T2P2ZU2LG2QV2 W2X2UY2Z2A3Q| After the Battle of Gettysburg | A |
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| Float in the winds of heaven O tattered Flag | B |
| Emblem of hope to all the misruled world | C |
| Thy field of golden stars is rent and red | D |
| Dyed in the blood of brothers madly spilled | E |
| By brother hands upon the mother soil | F |
| O fatal Upas of the savage Nile CT | G |
| Transplanted hither rooted multiplied | H |
| Watered with bitter tears and sending forth | I |
| Thy venom vapors till the land is mad | J |
| Thy day is done A million blades are swung | K |
| To lay thy jungles open to the sun | L |
| A million torches fire thy blasted boles | M |
| A million hands shall drag thy fibers out | N |
| And feed the fires till every root and branch | O |
| Lie in dead ashes From the blackened soil | F |
| Enriched and moistened with fraternal blood | P |
| Beside the palm shall spring the olive tree | Q |
| And every breeze shall waft the happy song | R |
| Of Freedom crowned with olive twigs and flowers | S |
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| Yea Patriot Flag of our old patriot sires | T |
| Honored victorious on an hundred fields | U |
| Where side by side for Freedom's mother land | V |
| Her Southern sons and Northern fighting fell | W |
| And side by side in glorious graves repose | X |
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| CT African slavery | Q |
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| I see the dawn of glory grander still | Y |
| When hand in hand upon this battle field | Z |
| The blue eyed maidens of the Merrimac | A2 |
| With dewy roses from the Granite Hills | B2 |
| And dark eyed daughters from the land of palms | C2 |
| With orange blossoms from the broad St Johns | D2 |
| In solemn concert singing as they go | E2 |
| Shall strew the graves of these fraternal dead | D |
| The day of triumph comes O blood stained Flag | B |
| Washed clean and lustrous in the morning light | F2 |
| Of a new era thou shalt float again | G2 |
| In more than pristine glory o'er the land | V |
| Peace blest and re united On the seas | H2 |
| Thou shalt be honored to the farthest isle | I2 |
| The oppressed of foreign lands shall flock the shores | J2 |
| To look upon and bless thee Mothers shall lift | K2 |
| Their infants to behold thee as a star | L2 |
| New born in heaven to light the darksome world | C |
| The children weeping round the desolate | M2 |
| Sore stricken mother in the saddened home | N2 |
| Whereto the father shall no more return | O2 |
| In future years will proudly boast the blood | P |
| Of him who bravely fell defending thee | Q |
| And these misguided brothers who would tear | P2 |
| Thy starry field asunder and would trail | Q2 |
| Their own proud flag and history in the dust | R2 |
| Ere many years will bless thee dear old Flag | B |
| That thou didst triumph even over them | S2 |
| Aye even they with proudly swelling hearts | T2 |
| Will see the glory thou shalt shortly wear | P2 |
| And new born stars swing in upon thy field | Z |
| In lustrous clusters Come O glorious day | U2 |
| Of Freedom crowned with Peace God's will be done | L |
| God's will is peace on earth good will to men | G2 |
| The chains all broken and the bond all free | Q |
| O may this nation learn to war no more | V2 |
| Yea into plow shares may these brothers beat | W2 |
| Their swords and into pruning hooks their spears | X2 |
| Clasp hands again and plant these battle fields | U |
| With golden corn and purple clustered vines | Y2 |
| And side by side re build the broken walls | Z2 |
| Joined and cemented as one solid stone | A3 |
| With patriot love and Christ's sweet charity | Q |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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