Arms And The Man. - The Southern Colonies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KFKF LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS| Then sweeping down below Virginia's Capes | A |
| From Chesapeake to where Savannah flows | B |
| We find the settlers laughing 'mid their grapes | A |
| And ignorant of snows | B |
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| The fragrant uppowock and golden corn | C |
| Spread far a field by river and lagoon | D |
| And all the months poured out from Plenty's Horn | C |
| Were opulent as June | D |
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| Yet they had tragedies all dark and fell | E |
| Lone Roanoke Island rises on the view | F |
| And this Peninsula its tale could tell | E |
| Of Opecancanough | F |
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| But when the Ocean thunders on the shore | G |
| Its waves though broken overflow the beach | H |
| So here our Fathers on and onward bore | G |
| With English laws and speech | H |
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| Kind skies above them underfoot rich soils | I |
| Silence and Savage at their presence fled | J |
| This Giant's Causeway sacred through their toils | I |
| Resounded at their tread | J |
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| With ardent hearts and ever open hands | K |
| Candid and honest brave and proud they grew | F |
| Their lives and habits colored by fair lands | K |
| As skies give waters hue | F |
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| The race in semi Feudal State appears | L |
| Their Knightly figures glow in tender mist | M |
| With ghostly pennons flung from ghostly spears | L |
| And ghostly hawks on wrist | M |
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| By enterprise and high adventure stirred | N |
| From rude lunette and sentry guarded croft | O |
| They hawked at Empire and as on they spurred | N |
| Fate's falcon soared aloft | O |
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| Fate's falcon soared aloft full strong and free | P |
| With blood on talons plumage beak and breast | Q |
| Her shadow like a storm shade on the sea | P |
| Far sailing down the West | Q |
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| Swift hoofs clang out behind that Falcon's flights | R |
| Hoofs shod with Golden Horse Shoes catch the eye | S |
| And as they ring we see the Forest Knights | R |
| The Cavaliers ride by | S |
James Barron Hope
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