Corsica Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBF GHGI JKJI LMLM NDND OGOG PQPQ| In Bordighera's groves of palm | A |
| I linger at the close of day | B |
| And watch beyond the ocean's calm | A |
| A range of mountains far away | B |
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| Their snowy summits white and cold | C |
| Flush crimson like a tinted shell | D |
| As sinks the sun in clouds of gold | C |
| Behind the peaks of Esterel | D |
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| No unsubstantial shapes are they | B |
| The offspring of the mist and sea | E |
| No splendid vision of Cathay | B |
| Recalled in dreamful revery | F |
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| Their solid bastions towering high | G |
| Though rooted in earth's primal plan | H |
| Proclaim to every passer by | G |
| The cradle of the Corsican | I |
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| What martial soul there found rebirth | J |
| When on those cliffs then scarcely known | K |
| There once more visited the earth | J |
| The spirit called Napoleon | I |
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| Three islands like the sister Fates | L |
| His life thread wove upon their loom | M |
| From fair Ajaccio's silvered gates | L |
| To Saint Helena's mournful tomb | M |
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| The first his birthplace whence appeared | N |
| His baleful star with lurid glow | D |
| Next Elba where the world still feared | N |
| The fugitive from Fontainebleau | D |
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| Last England's lonely prison block | O |
| Grim fragment 'neath a tropic sky | G |
| Where like Prometheus on his rock | O |
| The captive Caesar came to die | G |
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| O Corsica sublimely wild | P |
| And riven by the winds and waves | Q |
| Thy fame is deathless from thy child | P |
| Whose glory filled a million graves | Q |
John L. Stoddard
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