Cuba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIJH KKLDML NOPQRP| As one long struggling to be free | A |
| O suffering isle we look to thee | A |
| In sympathy and deep desire | B |
| That thy fair borders yet shall hold | C |
| A people happy self controlled | C |
| Saved and exalted as by fire | B |
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| Burning like thine own tropic heat | D |
| Thousands of lips afar repeat | D |
| The story of thy wrongs and woes | E |
| While argosies to thee shall bear | F |
| Of men and money everywhere | F |
| Strength to withstand thy stubborn foes | E |
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| Hispaniola waves her plume | G |
| Defiant over many a tomb | G |
| Where sleep thy sons the true and brave | H |
| But lo an army coming on | I |
| The places fill of heroes gone | J |
| For liberty their lives who gave | H |
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| The nations wait to hear thy shout | K |
| Of Independence ringing out | K |
| Chief of the Antilles what wilt thou | L |
| Buffets and gyves from your effete | D |
| Old monarchy dilapidate | M |
| Or freedom's laurels for thy brow | L |
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| In man's extremity it is | N |
| That Heaven's opportunities | O |
| Shine forth like jewels from the mine | P |
| Then Cuba in thy hour of need | Q |
| With vision clear the tokens read | R |
| And trust for aid that power divine | P |
Hattie Howard
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