Arms And The Man. - The Two Leaders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD CC EE CC FF CC CC| Two chieftains watch the battle's tide and listen as it rolls | A |
| And only HEAVEN above can tell the tumult of their souls | A |
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| Cornwallis saw the British power struck down by one fell blow | B |
| A Gallic spearhead on the lance that laid the Lion low | B |
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| But the Father of his Country saw the future all unrolled | C |
| Independence blazed before him written down in text of gold | C |
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| Like the Hebrew on the mountain looking forward then he saw | D |
| The Promised Land of Freedom blooming under Freedom's law | D |
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| Saw a great Republic spurring in the lists where Nations ride | C |
| The peer of any Power in her majesty and pride | C |
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| Saw that young Republic gazing through her helmet's gilded bars | E |
| Toward the West all luminous with th' light of coming stars | E |
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| From Atlantic to Pacific saw her banners all unfurled | C |
| Heard sonorous trumpets blowing bless d Peace with all the world | C |
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| Roused from this glorious vision with success within his reach | F |
| In few and simple words he made this long resounding speech | F |
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| The work is done and well done thus spake he on this sod | C |
| In accents calm and measured as the accents of a God | C |
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| God said I Yes his image rises on the raptured sight | C |
| Like Baldur the fair and blameless the Goth's God of the Light | C |
James Barron Hope
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