Carmen Triumphale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHI JKKJ LMML NOON PQRP STTS UVVU WXXW XYYX XXXX| Go forth and bid the land rejoice | A |
| Yet not too gladly O my song | B |
| Breathe softly as if mirth would wrong | B |
| The solemn rapture of thy voice | A |
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| Be nothing lightly done or said | C |
| This happy day Our joy should flow | D |
| Accordant with the lofty woe | D |
| That wails above the noble dead | C |
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| Let him whose brow and breast were calm | E |
| While yet the battle lay with God | F |
| Look down upon the crimson sod | F |
| And gravely wear his mournful palm | E |
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| And him whose heart still weak from fear | G |
| Beats all too gayly for the time | H |
| Know that intemperate glee is crime | H |
| While one dead hero claims a tear | I |
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| Yet go thou forth my song and thrill | J |
| With sober joy the troubled days | K |
| A nation's hymn of grateful praise | K |
| May not be hushed for private ill | J |
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| Our foes are fallen Flash ye wires | L |
| The mighty tidings far and nigh | M |
| Ye cities write them on the sky | M |
| In purple and in emerald fires | L |
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| They came with many a haughty boast | N |
| Their threats were heard on every breeze | O |
| They darkened half the neighboring seas | O |
| And swooped like vultures on the coast | N |
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| False recreants in all knightly strife | P |
| Their way was wet with woman's tears | Q |
| Behind them flamed the toil of years | R |
| And bloodshed stained the sheaves of life | P |
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| They fought as tyrants fight or slaves | S |
| God gave the dastards to our hands | T |
| Their bones are bleaching on the sands | T |
| Or mouldering slow in shallow graves | S |
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| What though we hear about our path | U |
| The heavens with howls of vengeance rent | V |
| The venom of their hate is spent | V |
| We need not heed their fangless wrath | U |
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| Meantime the stream they strove to chain | W |
| Now drinks a thousand springs and sweeps | X |
| With broadening breast and mightier deeps | X |
| And rushes onward to the main | W |
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| While down the swelling current glides | X |
| Our Ship of State before the blast | Y |
| With streamers poured from every mast | Y |
| Her thunders roaring from her sides | X |
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| Lord bid the frenzied tempest cease | X |
| Hang out thy rainbow on the sea | X |
| Laugh round her waves in silver glee | X |
| And speed her to the port of peace | X |
Henry Timrod
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