The White Czar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCC BBBBCC DDBBCC EEFFCC GGBBCC HHIICC CCJJCC CCKKCCThe White Czar is Peter the Great Batyushka Father dear and Gosudar Sovereign are titles the Russian people are fond of giving to the Czar in their popular songs | A |
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Dost thou see on the rampart's height | B |
That wreath of mist in the light | B |
Of the midnight moon O hist | B |
It is not a wreath of mist | B |
It is the Czar the White Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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He has heard among the dead | B |
The artillery roll o'erhead | B |
The drums and the tramp of feet | B |
Of his soldiery in the street | B |
He is awake the White Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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He has heard in the grave the cries | D |
Of his people Awake arise | D |
He has rent the gold brocade | B |
Whereof his shroud was made | B |
He is risen the White Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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From the Volga and the Don | E |
He has led his armies on | E |
Over river and morass | F |
Over desert and mountain pass | F |
The Czar the Orthodox Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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He looks from the mountain chain | G |
Toward the seas that cleave in twain | G |
The continents his hand | B |
Points southward o'er the land | B |
Of Roumili O Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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And the words break from his lips | H |
I am the builder of ships | H |
And my ships shall sail these seas | I |
To the Pillars of Hercules | I |
I say it the White Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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The Bosphorus shall be free | C |
It shall make room for me | C |
And the gates of its water streets | J |
Be unbarred before my fleets | J |
I say it the White Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
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And the Christian shall no more | C |
Be crushed as heretofore | C |
Beneath thine iron rule | K |
O Sultan of Istamboul | K |
I swear it I the Czar | C |
Batyushka Gosudar | C |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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