The Fortitude Of The North Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDBEBEUnder the Disaster of the Second Manassas | A |
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They take no shame for dark defeat | B |
While prizing yet each victory won | C |
Who fight for the Right through all retreat | B |
Nor pause until their work is done | C |
The Cape of Storms is proof to every throe | D |
Vainly against that foreland beat | B |
Wild winds aloft and wilder waves below | E |
The black cliffs gleam through rents in sleet | B |
When the livid Antarctic storm clouds glow | E |
Herman Melville
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