Two Capitals-1910 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCD EEFFGGBBHHIIJJKKBBLM BGBG BBBBBB NKJKJHOHOBBBBPQPQBRB F STSTKGKG| Moscow | A |
| White Moscow of the pearly towers | B |
| And golden domes for praise | C |
| And chiming hours | B |
| Red Moscow of the Kremlin walls | D |
| And bloody battle ways | C |
| And fire scarred halls | D |
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| Beautiful Moscow brave and bright | E |
| Whose banners floated toward the light | E |
| When Asia knocked at Europe's door | F |
| And bleeding tzars paid off our score | F |
| Ah shining city far away | G |
| Your gaudy spires salute the day | G |
| Like opal hearted iris flowers | B |
| Decking the blue transparent hours | B |
| Now from your seat the slim rails run | H |
| Through Asia to the rising sun | H |
| Along the ancient highway made | I |
| By caravan and cavalcade | I |
| Still East and West meet at your gate | J |
| That Kremlin gate where once in state | J |
| Great Europe's conqueror seeking room | K |
| Marched through triumphant to his doom | K |
| Proud Moscow of barbaric tzars | B |
| Of gorgeous crownings and dark wars | B |
| Jewel encrusted rich with age | L |
| Heir of a lordly heritage | M |
| Look out from Ivan's tower of bells | B |
| See the vast East is proud with day | G |
| Soon to your ancient citadels | B |
| The world will march the Asian way | G |
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| White Moscow of the pearly towers | B |
| And golden domes for praise | B |
| And chiming hours | B |
| Red Moscow of the Kremlin walls | B |
| And bloody battle ways | B |
| And fire scarred halls | B |
| - | |
| Peking | N |
| Under her yellow roofs adream | K |
| The imperial city sleeps in state | J |
| While warrior nations flags agleam | K |
| Come marching through her fortress gate | J |
| Beneath her towered wall one by one | H |
| The slow contemptuous camels tread | O |
| And through it eager engines run | H |
| Over the dust of ages dead | O |
| Peking close bound in triple walls | B |
| Between the old and new she lies | B |
| The yellow dragon guards her halls | B |
| The blare of trumpets fills her skies | B |
| She stirs out of her age long sleep | P |
| By the worn temples chill and still | Q |
| Where Sung and Ming and Mongol keep | P |
| Their ghostly watch from hill to hill | Q |
| Over the graves of dynasties | B |
| The winds of dawn blow free and far | R |
| Heralds of hastening centuries | B |
| With banners flown for peace or war | F |
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| O brooding East | S |
| O winds of dawn | T |
| From the night long feast | S |
| The kings are gone | T |
| What guests will come | K |
| Down the world's highway | G |
| At the roil of the drum | K |
| For the day | G |
Harriet Monroe
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