Carolina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDCEEEC A FFFCGGGCHHHC A IIICJJJCKKKC HHHCLLLCHHHC MMMCHHHCGGGC MMMCHHHCNNNC OOOCHHHCHHHCI | A |
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The despot treads thy sacred sands | B |
Thy pines give shelter to his bands | B |
Thy sons stand by with idle hands | B |
Carolina | C |
He breathes at ease thy airs of balm | D |
He scorns the lances of thy palm | D |
Oh who shall break thy craven calm | D |
Carolina | C |
Thy ancient fame is growing dim | E |
A spot is on thy garment's rim | E |
Give to the winds thy battle hymn | E |
Carolina | C |
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II | A |
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Call on thy children of the hill | F |
Wake swamp and river coast and rill | F |
Rouse all thy strength and all thy skill | F |
Carolina | C |
Cite wealth and science trade and art | G |
Touch with thy fire the cautious mart | G |
And pour thee through the people's heart | G |
Carolina | C |
Till even the coward spurns his fears | H |
And all thy fields and fens and meres | H |
Shall bristle like thy palm with spears | H |
Carolina | C |
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III | A |
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Hold up the glories of thy dead | I |
Say how thy elder children bled | I |
And point to Eutaw's battle bed | I |
Carolina | C |
Tell how the patriot's soul was tried | J |
And what his dauntless breast defied | J |
How Rutledge ruled and Laurens died | J |
Carolina | C |
Cry till thy summons heard at last | K |
Shall fall like Marion's bugle blast | K |
Re echoed from the haunted Past | K |
Carolina | C |
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IV | - |
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I hear a murmur as of waves | H |
That grope their way through sunless caves | H |
Like bodies struggling in their graves | H |
Carolina | C |
And now it deepens slow and grand | L |
It swells as rolling to the land | L |
An ocean broke upon thy strand | L |
Carolina | C |
Shout let it reach the startled Huns | H |
And roar with all thy festal guns | H |
It is the answer of thy sons | H |
Carolina | C |
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V | - |
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They will not wait to hear thee call | M |
From Sachem's Head to Sumter's wall | M |
Resounds the voice of hut and hall | M |
Carolina | C |
No thou hast not a stain they say | H |
Or none save what the battle day | H |
Shall wash in seas of blood away | H |
Carolina | C |
Thy skirts indeed the foe may part | G |
Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart | G |
They shall not touch thy noble heart | G |
Carolina | C |
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VI | - |
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Ere thou shalt own the tyrant's thrall | M |
Ten times ten thousand men must fall | M |
Thy corpse may hearken to his call | M |
Carolina | C |
When by thy bier in mournful throngs | H |
The women chant thy mortal wrongs | H |
'T will be their own funereal songs | H |
Carolina | C |
From thy dead breast by ruffians trod | N |
No helpless child shall look to God | N |
All shall be safe beneath thy sod | N |
Carolina | C |
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VII | - |
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Girt with such wills to do and bear | O |
Assured in right and mailed in prayer | O |
Thou wilt not bow thee to despair | O |
Carolina | C |
Throw thy bold banner to the breeze | H |
Front with thy ranks the threatening seas | H |
Like thine own proud armorial trees | H |
Carolina | C |
Fling down thy gauntlet to the Huns | H |
And roar the challenge from thy guns | H |
Then leave the future to thy sons | H |
Carolina | C |
Henry Timrod
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