Charleston Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VWVW| Calm as that second summer which precedes | A |
| The first fall of the snow | B |
| In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds | A |
| The City bides the foe | B |
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| As yet behind their ramparts stern and proud | C |
| Her bolted thunders sleep | D |
| Dark Sumter like a battlemented cloud | C |
| Looms o'er the solemn deep | D |
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| No Calpe frowns from lofty cliff or scar | E |
| To guard the holy strand | F |
| But Moultrie holds in leash her dogs of war | G |
| Above the level sand | F |
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| And down the dunes a thousand guns lie couched | H |
| Unseen beside the flood | I |
| Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouched | H |
| That wait and watch for blood | I |
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| Meanwhile through streets still echoing with trade | J |
| Walk grave and thoughtful men | K |
| Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's blade | J |
| As lightly as the pen | K |
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| And maidens with such eyes as would grow dim | L |
| Over a bleeding hound | M |
| Seem each one to have caught the strength of him | L |
| Whose sword she sadly bound | M |
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| Thus girt without and garrisoned at home | N |
| Day patient following day | O |
| Old Charleston looks from roof and spire and dome | N |
| Across her tranquil bay | O |
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| Ships through a hundred foes from Saxon lands | P |
| And spicy Indian ports | Q |
| Bring Saxon steel and iron to her hands | P |
| And Summer to her courts | Q |
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| But still along yon dim Atlantic line | R |
| The only hostile smoke | S |
| Creeps like a harmless mist above the brine | R |
| From some frail floating oak | S |
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| Shall the Spring dawn and she still clad in smiles | T |
| And with an unscathed brow | U |
| Rest in the strong arms of her palm crowned isles | T |
| As fair and free as now | U |
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| We know not in the temple of the Fates | V |
| God has inscribed her doom | W |
| And all untroubled in her faith she waits | V |
| The triumph or the tomb | W |
Henry Timrod
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