Ripley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR| Rich in red honors that upon him lie | A |
| As lightly as the Summer dews | B |
| Fall where he won his fame beneath the sky | A |
| Of tropic Vera Cruz | B |
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| Bold scorner of the cant that has its birth | C |
| In feeble or in failing powers | D |
| A lover of all frank and genial mirth | C |
| That wreathes the sword with flowers | D |
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| He moves amid the warriors of the day | E |
| Just such a soldier as the art | F |
| That builds its trophies upon human clay | E |
| Moulds of a cheerful heart | F |
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| I see him in the battle that shall shake | G |
| Ere long old Sumter's haughty crown | H |
| And from their dreams of peaceful traffic wake | G |
| The wharves of yonder town | H |
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| As calm as one would greet a pleasant guest | I |
| And quaff a cup to love and life | J |
| He hurls his deadliest thunders with a jest | I |
| And laughs amid the strife | J |
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| Yet not the gravest soldier of them all | K |
| Surveys a field with broader scope | L |
| And who behind that sea encircled wall | K |
| Fights with a loftier hope | L |
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| Gay Chieftain on the crimson rolls of Fame | M |
| Thy deeds are written with the sword | N |
| But there are gentler thoughts which with thy name | M |
| Thy country's page shall hoard | N |
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| A nature of that rare and happy cast | O |
| Which looks unsteeled on murder's face | P |
| Through what dark scenes of bloodshed hast thou passed | O |
| Yet lost no social grace | P |
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| So when the bard depicts thee thou shalt wield | Q |
| The weapon of a tyrant's doom | R |
| Round which inscribed with many a well fought field | Q |
| The rose of joy shall bloom | R |
Henry Timrod
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