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The Lee Memorial Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Great Mother of great Commonwealths	A
Men call our Mother State	B
And she so well has earned this name	C
That she may challenge Fate	B
To snatch away the epithet	D
Long given her of great	B
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First of all Old England's outposts	A
To stand fast upon these shores	A
Soon she brought a mighty harvest	E
To a People's threshing floors	A
And more than golden grain was piled	F
Within her ample doors	A
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Behind her stormy sunrise shone	G
Her shadow fell vast and long	H
And her mighty Adm'ral English Smith	I
Heads a prodigous throng	H
Of as mighty men from Raleigh down	J
As ever arose in song	H
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Her names are the shining arrows	A
Which her ancient quiver bears	A
And their splendid sheaf has thickened	K
Through the long march of the years	A
While her great shield has been burnished	L
By her children's blood and tears	A
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Yes it is true my Countrymen	M
We are rich in names and blood	N
And red have been the blossoms	A
From the first Colonial bud	N
While her names have blazed as meteors	A
By many a field and flood	N
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And as some flood tumultuous	A
In sounding billows rolled	O
Gives back the evening's glories	A
In a wealth of blazing gold	O
So does the present from its waves	A
Reflect the lights of old	O
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Our history is a shining sea	A
Locked in by lofty land	P
And its great Pillars of Hercules	A
Above the shining sand	P
I here behold in majesty	A
Uprising on each hand	P
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These Pillars of our history	A
In fame forever young	Q
Are known in every latitude	R
And named in every tongue	Q
And down through all the Ages	A
Their story shall be sung	Q
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The Father of his Country	A
Stands above that shut in sea	A
A glorious symbol to the world	S
Of all that's great and free	A
And to day Virginia matches him	T
And matches him with Lee	A
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II	U
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Who shall blame the social order	V
Which gave us men as great as these	A
Who condemn the soil of t' forest	E
Which bring forth gigantic trees	A
Who presume to doubt that Providence	A
Shapes out our destinies	A
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Fore ordained and long maturing	W
Came the famous men of old	O
In the dark mines deep were driven	X
Down the shafts to reach the gold	O
And the story is far longer	V
Than the histories have told	O
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From Bacon down to Washington	X
The generations passed	Y
Great events and moving causes	A
Were in serried order massed	Y
Berkeley well was first confronted	N
Better George the King at last	Y
	-
From the time of that stern ruler	V
To our own familiar days	A
Long the pathway we have trodden	X
Hard and devious were its ways	A
Till at last there came the second	K
Mightier Revolution's blaze	A
	-
Till at last there broke the tempest	E
Like a cyclone on the sea	A
When the lightnings blazed and dazzled	Z
And the thunders were set free	A
And riding on that whirlwind came	C
Majestic Robert Lee	A
	-
Who again I ask the question	X
Who may challenge in debate	B
With any show of truthfulness	A
Our former social state	B
Which brought forth more than heroes	A
In their lives supremely great	B
	-
Not Peter the wild Crusader	V
When bent upon his knee	A
Not Arthur and his belted knights	A
In the Poet's Song could be	A
More earnest than those Southern men	A2
Who followed Robert Lee	A
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They thought that they were right and this	A
Was hammered into those	A
Who held that crest all drenched in blood	N
Where the Bloody Angle rose	A
As for all else It passes by	B2
As the idle wind that blows	A
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III	U
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Then stand up oh my Countrymen	M
And unto God give thanks	A
On mountains and on hillsides	A
And by sloping river banks	A
Thank God that you were worthy	A
Of the grand Confederate ranks	A
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That you who came from uplands	A
And from beside the sea	A
Filled with love of Old Virginia	C2
And the teachings of the free	A
May boast in sight of all men	A2
That you followed Robert Lee	A
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Peace has come God give his blessing	W
On the fact and on the name	C
The South speaks no invective	D2
And she writes no word of blame	C
But we call all men to witness	A
That we stand up without shame	C
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Nay Send it forth to all the world	S
That we stand up here with pride	E2
With love for our living comrades	A
And with praise for those who died	E2
And in this manly frame of mind	F2
Till death we will abide	E2
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GOD and our consciences alone	G
Give us measure of right and wrong	H
The race may fall unto the swift	G2
And the battle to the strong	H
But the truth will shine in history	A
And blossom into song	H
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Human grief full oft by glory	A
Is assuaged and disappears	A
When its requiem swells with music	H2
Like the shock of shields and spears	A
And its passion is too full of pride	E2
To leave a space for tears	A
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And hence to day my Countrymen	M
We come with undimmed eyes	A
In homage of the hero Lee	A
The good the great the wise	A
And at his name our hearts will leap	I2
Till his last old soldier dies	A
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Ask me if so you please to paint	J2
Storm winds upon the sea	A
Tell me to weigh great Cheops	A
Set volcanic forces free	A
But bid me not my Countrymen	M
To picture Robert Lee	A
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As Saul bound for Damascus fair	K2
Was struck blind by sudden light	L2
So my eyes are pained and dazzled	Z
By a radiance pure and white	L2
Shot back by the burnished armor	V
Of that glory belted Knight	L2
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His was all the Norman's polish	M2
And sobriety of grace	A
All the Goth's majestic figure	V
All the Roman's noble face	A
And he stood the tall exemplar	N2
Of a grand historic race	A
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Baronial were his acres where	K2
Potomac's waters run	X
High his lineage and his blazon	X
Was by cunning heralds done	X
But better still he might have said	O2
Of his works he was the son	X
	-
Truth walked beside him always	A
From his childhood's early years	A
Honor followed as his shadow	P2
Valor lightened all his cares	A
And he rode that grand Virginian	X
Last of all the Cavaliers	A
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As a soldier we all knew him	T
Great in action and repose	A
Saw how his genius kindled	Z
And his mighty spirit rose	A
When the four quarters of the globe	Q2
Encompassed him with foes	A
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But he and his grew braver	V
As the danger grew more rife	R2
Avaricious they of glory	A
But most prodigal of life	R2
And the Army of Virginia	X
Was the Atlas of the strife	R2
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As his troubles gathered round him	T
Thick as waves that beat the shore	S2
Atra Cura rode behind him	T
Famine's shadow filled his door	S2
Still he wrought deeds no mortal man	X
Had ever wrought before	S2
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IV	R2
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Then came the end my Countrymen	X
The last thunderbolts were hurled	S
Worn out by his own victories	A
His battle flags were furled	S
And a history was finished	S
That has changed the modern world	S
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As some saint in the arena	X
Of a bloody Roman game	C
As the prize of his endeavor	V
Put on an immortal frame	C
Through long agonies our Soldier	V
Won the crown of martial fame	C
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But there came a greater glory	A
To that man supremely great	S
When his just sword he laid aside	S
In peace to serve his State	S
For in his classic solitude	S
He rose up and mastered Fate	S
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He triumphed and he did not die	S
No funeral bells are tolled	S
But on that day in Lexington	X
Fame came herself to hold	S
His stirrup while he mounted	S
To ride down the streets of gold	S
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He is not dead There is no death	T2
He only went before	S2
His journey on when CHRIST THE LORD	S
Wide open held the door	S2
And a calm celestial peace is his	A
Thank God forevermore	S2
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V	A
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When the effigy of Washington	X
In its bronze was reared on high	S
'Twas mine with others now long gone	X
Beneath a stormy sky	S
To utter to the multitude	S
His name that cannot die	S
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And here to day my Countrymen	X
I tell you Lee shall ride	S
With that great rebel down the years	A
Twin rebels side by side	S
And confronting such a vision	X
All our grief gives place to pride	S
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Those two shall ride immortal	U2
And shall ride abreast of Time	V2
Shall light up stately history	A
And blaze in Epic Rhyme	V2
Both patriots both Virginians true	S2
Both rebels both sublime	V2
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Our past is full of glories	A
It is a shut in sea	A
The pillars overlooking it	S
Are Washington and Lee	A
And a future spreads before us	A
Not unworthy of the free	A
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And here and now my Countrymen	X
Upon this sacred sod	S
Let us feel It was OUR FATHER	S2
Who above us held the rod	S
And from hills to sea	A
Like Robert Lee	A
Bow reverently to God	S