At Port Royal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EFEF GHGH IAIA AAAA JKJK FGFG LMLM| The tent lights glimmer on the land | A |
| The ship lights on the sea | B |
| The night wind smooths with drifting sand | A |
| Our track on lone Tybee | C |
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| At last our grating keels outslide | A |
| Our good boats forward swing | D |
| And while we ride the land locked tide | A |
| Our negroes row and sing | D |
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| For dear the bondman holds his gifts | E |
| Of music and of song | F |
| The gold that kindly Nature sifts | E |
| Among his sands of wrong | F |
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| The power to make his toiling days | G |
| And poor home comforts please | H |
| The quaint relief of mirth that plays | G |
| With sorrow's minor keys | H |
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| Another glow than sunset's fire | I |
| Has filled the West with light | A |
| Where field and garner barn and byre | I |
| Are blazing through the night | A |
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| The land is wild with fear and hate | A |
| The rout runs mad and fast | A |
| From hand to hand from gate to gate | A |
| The flaming brand is passed | A |
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| The lurid glow falls strong across | J |
| Dark faces broad with smiles | K |
| Not theirs the terror hate and loss | J |
| That fire yon blazing piles | K |
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| With oar strokes timing to their song | F |
| They weave in simple lays | G |
| The pathos of remembered wrong | F |
| The hope of better days | G |
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| The triumph note that Miriam sung | L |
| The joy of uncaged birds | M |
| Softening with Afric's mellow tongue | L |
| Their broken Saxon words | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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