The Columbiad: Book X Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFCCGG HHIIJJKKLLMM NOPPQQHHRREE SSEETURRRRVWRRXXYYGG YYYYZZVWA2A2 RRYYRRYYB2B2YYYYYYZZ YYYYRRRRRR RRYYC2C2D2D2E2E2RRGG RRXAEEYYYYRRYYF2F2GG RRRRHH YYYYG2G2H2H2EEGGI2I2 RRYYRR YYYYI2W RRJ2| The vision resumed and extended over the whole earth Present character of different nations Future progress of society with respect to commerce discoveries inland navigation philosophical med and political knowledge Science of government Assimilation and final union of all languages Its effect on education and on the advancement of physical and moral science The physical precedes the moral as Phosphor precedes the Sun View of a general Congress from all nations assembled to establish the political harmony of mankind Conclusion | A |
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| Hesper again his heavenly power display'd | B |
| And shook the yielding canopy of shade | B |
| Sudden the stars their trembling fires withdrew | C |
| Returning splendors burst upon the view | C |
| Floods of unfolding light the skies adorn | D |
| And more than midday glories grace the morn | D |
| So shone the earth as if the sideral train | E |
| Broad as full suns had sail'd the ethereal plain | E |
| When no distinguisht orb could strike the sight | F |
| But one clear blaze of all surrounding light | F |
| O'erflow'd the vault of heaven For now in view | C |
| Remoter climes and future ages drew | C |
| Whose deeds of happier fame in long array | G |
| Call'd into vision fill the newborn day | G |
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| Far as seraphic power could lift the eye | H |
| Or earth or ocean bend the yielding sky | H |
| Or circling sutis awake the breathing gale | I |
| Drake lead the way or Cook extend the sail | I |
| Where Behren sever'd with adventurous prow | J |
| Hesperia's headland from Tartaria's brow | J |
| Where sage Vancouvre's patient leads were hurl'd | K |
| Where Deimen stretch'd his solitary world | K |
| All lands all seas that boast a present name | L |
| And all that unborn time shall give to fame | L |
| Around the Pair in bright expansion rise | M |
| And earth in one vast level bounds the skies | M |
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| They saw the nations tread their different shores | N |
| Ply their own toils and wield their local powers | O |
| Their present state in all its views disclose | P |
| Their gleams of happiness their shades of woes | P |
| Plodding in various stages thro the range | Q |
| Of man's unheeded but unceasing change | Q |
| Columbus traced them with experienced eye | H |
| And class'd and counted all the flags that fly | H |
| He mark'd what tribes still rove the savage waste | R |
| What cultured realms the sweets of plenty taste | R |
| Where arts and virtues fix their golden reign | E |
| Or peace adorns or slaughter dyes the plain | E |
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| He saw the restless Tartar proud to roam | S |
| Move with his herds and pitch a transient home | S |
| Tibet's long tracts and China's fixt domain | E |
| Dull as their despots yield their cultured grain | E |
| Cambodia Siam Asia's myriad isles | T |
| And old Indostan with their wealthy spoils | U |
| Attract adventures masters and o'ershade | R |
| Their sunbright ocean with the wings of trade | R |
| Arabian robbers Syrian Kurds combined | R |
| Create their deserts and infest mankind | R |
| The Turk's dim Crescent like a day struck star | V |
| As Russia's Eagle shades their haunts of war | W |
| Shrinks from insulted Europe who divide | R |
| The shatter'd empire to the Pontic tide | R |
| He mark'd impervious Afric where alone | X |
| She lies encircled with the verdant zone | X |
| That lines her endless coast and still sustains | Y |
| Her northern pirates and her eastern swains | Y |
| Mourns her interior tribes purloined away | G |
| And chain'd and sold beyond Atlantic day | G |
| Brazilla's wilds Mackensie's savage lands | Y |
| With bickering strife inflame their furious bands | Y |
| Atlantic isles and Europe's cultured shores | Y |
| Heap their vast wealth exchange their growing stores | Y |
| All arts inculcate new discoveries plan | Z |
| Tease and torment but school the race of man | Z |
| While his own federal states extending far | V |
| Calm their brave sons now breathing from the war | W |
| Unfold their harbors spread their genial soil | A2 |
| And welcome freemen to the cheerful toil | A2 |
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| A sight so solemn as it varied sound | R |
| Fill'd his fond heart with reveries profound | R |
| He felt the infinitude of thoughts that pass | Y |
| And guide and govern that enormous mass | Y |
| The cares that agitate the creeds that blind | R |
| The woes that waste the many master'd kind | R |
| The distance great that still remains to trace | Y |
| Ere sober sense can harmonize the race | Y |
| Held him suspense imprest with reverence meek | B2 |
| And choked his utterance as he wish'd to speak | B2 |
| When Hesper thus The paths they here pursue | Y |
| Wide as they seem unfolding to thy view | Y |
| Show but a point in that long circling course | Y |
| Which cures their weakness and confirms their force | Y |
| Lends that experience which alone can close | Y |
| The scenes of strife and give the world repose | Y |
| Yet here thou seest the same progressive plan | Z |
| That draws for mutual succour man to man | Z |
| From twain to tribe from tribe to realm dilates | Y |
| In federal union groups a hundred states | Y |
| Thro all their turns with gradual scale ascends | Y |
| Their powers their passions and their interest blends | Y |
| While growing arts their social virtues spread | R |
| Enlarge their compacts and unlock their trade | R |
| Till each remotest clan by commerce join'd | R |
| Links in the chain that binds all humankind | R |
| Their bloody banners sink in darkness furl'd | R |
| And one white flag of peace triumphant walks the world | R |
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| As infant streams from oozing earth at first | R |
| With feeble force and lonely murmurs burst | R |
| From myriad unseen fountains draw the rills | Y |
| And curl contentious round their hundred hills | Y |
| Meet froth and foam their dashing currents swell | C2 |
| O'er crags and rocks their furious course impel | C2 |
| Impetuous plunging plough the mounds of earth | D2 |
| And tear the fostering flanks that gave them birth | D2 |
| Mad with the strength they gain they thicken deep | E2 |
| Their muddy waves and slow and sullen creep | E2 |
| O'erspread whole regions in their lawless pride | R |
| Then stagnate long then shrink and curb their tide | R |
| Anon more tranquil grown with steadier sway | G |
| Thro broader banks they shape their seaward way | G |
| From different climes converging join and spread | R |
| Their mingled waters in one widening bed | R |
| Profound transparent till the liquid zone | X |
| Bands half the globe and drinks the golden sun | A |
| Sweeps onward still the still expanding plain | E |
| And moves majestic to the boundless main | E |
| Tis thus Society's small sources rise | Y |
| Thro passions wild her infant progress lies | Y |
| Fear with its host of follies errors woes | Y |
| Creates her obstacles and forms her foes | Y |
| Misguided interest local pride withstand | R |
| Till long tried ills her growing views expand | R |
| Till tribes and states and empires find their place | Y |
| Whose mutual wants her widest walks embrace | Y |
| Enlightened interest moral sense at length | F2 |
| Combine their aids to elevate her strength | F2 |
| Lead o'er the world her peace commanding sway | G |
| And light her steps with everlasting day | G |
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| From that mark'd stage of man we now behold | R |
| More rapid strides his coming paths unfold | R |
| His continents are traced his islands found | R |
| His well taught sails on all his billows bound | R |
| His varying wants their new discoveries ply | H |
| And seek in earth's whole range their sure supply | H |
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| First of his future stages thou shalt see | Y |
| His trade unfetter'd and his ocean free | Y |
| From thy young states the code consoling springs | Y |
| To strip from vulture War his naval wings | Y |
| In views so just all Europe's powers combine | G2 |
| And earth's full voice approves the vast design | G2 |
| Tho still her inland realms the combat wage | H2 |
| And hold in lingering broils the unsettled age | H2 |
| Yet no rude shocks that shake the crimson plain | E |
| Shall more disturb the labors of the main | E |
| The main that spread so wide his travell'd way | G |
| Liberal as air impartial as the day | G |
| That all thy race the common wealth might share | I2 |
| Exchange their fruits and fill their treasures there | I2 |
| Their speech assimilate their counsels blend | R |
| Till mutual interest fix the mutual friend | R |
| Now see my son the destined hour advance | Y |
| Safe in their leagues commercial navies dance | Y |
| Leave their curst cannon on the quay built strand | R |
| And like the stars of heaven a fearless course command | R |
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| The Hero look'd beneath his wondering eyes | Y |
| Gay streamers lengthen round the seas and skies | Y |
| The countless nations open all their stores | Y |
| Load every wave and crowd the lively shores | Y |
| Bright sails in mingling mazes streak the air | I2 |
| And commerce triumphs o'er the rage of war | W |
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| From Baltic streams from Elba's opening side | R |
| From Rhine's long course and Texel's laboring tide | R |
| From Gaul f | J2 |
Joel Barlow
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