Song Composed For Washington's Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG| A hundred years and more ago | A |
| A little child was born | B |
| To day with pomp of martial show | A |
| We hail his natal morn | B |
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| Who guessed as that poor infant wept | C |
| Upon a woman's knee | D |
| A nation from the centuries stept | C |
| As weak and frail as he | D |
| - | |
| Who saw the future on his brow | E |
| Upon that happy morn | B |
| We are a mighty nation now | E |
| Because that child was born | B |
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| To him and to his spirit's scope | F |
| Besides a glorious home | G |
| We owe that what we have and hope | F |
| Are more than Greece and Rome | G |
Henry Timrod
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