Arms And The Man. - The Flag Of The Republic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH FIFI JKJL MNMN OPOP EQEQ| My harp soon ceases but I here allege | A |
| Its strings are in my heart and tremble there | B |
| My Song's last strain shall be a claim and pledge | A |
| A claim a pledge a prayer | B |
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| I stand as stood in storied days of old | C |
| Vasco Balboa staring o'er bright seas | D |
| When fair Pacific's tide of limpid gold | C |
| Surged up against his knees | D |
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| For haughty Spain her banner in his hand | E |
| He claimed a New World sea and plain and crag | F |
| I claim the Future's Ocean for this land | E |
| And here I plant her flag | F |
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| Float out oh flag from Freedom's burnished lance | G |
| Float out oh flag in Red and White and Blue | H |
| The Union's colors and the hues of France | G |
| Commingled on the view | H |
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| Float out oh flag and all thy splendors wake | F |
| Float out oh flag above our Hero's bed | I |
| Float out oh flag and let thy blazon take | F |
| New glories from the dead | I |
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| Float out oh flag o'er Freedom's noblest types | J |
| Float out oh flag all free of blot or stain | K |
| Float out oh flag the Roses in thy stripes | J |
| Forever blent again | L |
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| Float out oh flag and float in every clime | M |
| Float out oh flag and blaze on every sea | N |
| Float out oh flag and float as long as Time | M |
| And Space themselves shall be | N |
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| Float out oh flag o'er Freedom's onward march | O |
| Float out oh flag in Freedom's starry sheen | P |
| Float out oh flag above the Union's arch | O |
| Where Washington is seen | P |
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| Float out oh flag above a smiling Land | E |
| Float out oh flag above a peaceful sod | Q |
| Float out oh flag thy staff within the hand | E |
| Beneficent of God | Q |
James Barron Hope
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