Poet John L. Stoddard

John L. Stoddard

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Corsica Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBF GHGI JKJI LMLM NDND OGOG PQPQ

In Bordighera's groves of palmA
I linger at the close of dayB
And watch beyond the ocean's calmA
A range of mountains far awayB
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Their snowy summits white and coldC
Flush crimson like a tinted shellD
As sinks the sun in clouds of goldC
Behind the peaks of EsterelD
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No unsubstantial shapes are theyB
The offspring of the mist and seaE
No splendid vision of CathayB
Recalled in dreamful reveryF
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Their solid bastions towering highG
Though rooted in earth's primal planH
Proclaim to every passer byG
The cradle of the CorsicanI
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What martial soul there found rebirthJ
When on those cliffs then scarcely knownK
There once more visited the earthJ
The spirit called NapoleonI
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Three islands like the sister FatesL
His life thread wove upon their loomM
From fair Ajaccio's silvered gatesL
To Saint Helena's mournful tombM
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The first his birthplace whence appearedN
His baleful star with lurid glowD
Next Elba where the world still fearedN
The fugitive from FontainebleauD
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Last England's lonely prison blockO
Grim fragment 'neath a tropic skyG
Where like Prometheus on his rockO
The captive Caesar came to dieG
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O Corsica sublimely wildP
And riven by the winds and wavesQ
Thy fame is deathless from thy childP
Whose glory filled a million gravesQ

John L. Stoddard



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