Arms And The Man. - The Colonies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF HIHI JKJK| The fountain of our story spreads no clouds | A |
| Of mist above it rich in varied glows | B |
| None paint us Gods and Goddesses in crowds | A |
| Where some Scamander flows | B |
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| The tale of Jamestown which I need not gild | C |
| With that of Plymouth by the World is seen | D |
| But none in visions fancifully build | C |
| Olympus in between | D |
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| At Jamestown stood the Saxon's home and graves | E |
| There Britain's spray broke on the native rock | F |
| There rose the English tide with crested waves | E |
| And overwhelming shock | F |
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| Virginia thence stirred by a grand unrest | G |
| Swept o'er the waters scaled the mountain's crag | F |
| Hewed out a more than Roman roadway West | G |
| And planted there her flag | F |
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| Her fortune was forewritten even then | H |
| That fortune in the coming years to be | I |
| Mother of States and unpolluted men | H |
| And nurse of Liberty | I |
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| Then 'twas our coast all bore Virginia's name | J |
| Next North Virginia took its separate place | K |
| And grew by slow degrees in wealth and fame | J |
| And Freedom's special grace | K |
James Barron Hope
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