Arms And The Man. - The Old Dominion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC CDCD BCBC CECE| Midway between the orange and the snows | A |
| As some fair planet rounds up from the sea | B |
| Eldest of all the Central Power arose | A |
| In vague immensity | C |
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| She stretched from Seas in sun to Lakes in Shade | C |
| O'erstepped swift Rio Escondido's stream | D |
| Her bounds expressed as by the Tudor made | C |
| An Alexander's dream | D |
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| And liberal Stuart granted broad and free | B |
| Bound'ries which still the annalist may boast | C |
| Limits which ran throughout from sea to sea | B |
| And far along the coast | C |
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| A mighty shaft through Raleigh's fingers slipped | C |
| Smith shot it and a Continent awoke | E |
| For that great arrow with an acorn tipped | C |
| Planted an English Oak | E |
James Barron Hope
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