Arms And The Man. - The Embattled Colonies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP| Before this thought the present hour recedes | A |
| As from the beach a billow backward rolls | B |
| And the great past rich in heroic deeds | A |
| Illuminates our souls | B |
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| Stern Massachusetts Bay uplifts her form | C |
| Boston the tale of Lexington repeats | D |
| With breast unarmored she confronts the storm | C |
| New England England meets | D |
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| I see the Middle Group by Fortune made | E |
| The bloody Flanders of the Northern Coast | F |
| And in a varying play of light and shade | E |
| Host thundering fall on host | F |
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| I see the Carolinas Georgia mowed | G |
| By War the Reaper and grim Ruin stalk | H |
| O'er wasted fields but Guilford paved the way | I |
| That led to this same York | J |
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| Here too Virginia in the vision comes | K |
| Full bent to crown the battle's closing arch | L |
| Her pulses trumpets and her heart throbs drums | K |
| To animate her march | L |
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| As Pocahontas in a by gone time | M |
| Leaped forth the wrath of Powhatan to brave | N |
| Virginia came and here she stood sublime | M |
| To perish or to save | N |
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| I see her interposing now her frame | O |
| Between her sisters and the alien bands | P |
| And taking both of Freedom and of Fame | O |
| Full seisin with her hands | P |
James Barron Hope
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