Niagara Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGHIHI A JKJLBMBM E BEBECNCN E OPQPFIF E RSDSCTCT| I | A |
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| Roar raging torrent and thou mighty river | B |
| Pour thy white foam on the valley below | C |
| Frown ye dark mountains and shadow for ever | B |
| The deep rocky bed where the wild rapids flow | C |
| The green sunny glade and the smooth flowing fountain | D |
| Brighten the home of the coward and slave | E |
| The flood and the forest the rock and the mountain | D |
| Rear on their bosoms the free and the brave | E |
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| II | A |
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| Nurslings of nature I mark your bold bearing | F |
| Pride in each aspect and strength in each form | G |
| Hearts of warm impulse and souls of high daring | F |
| Born in the battle and rear'd in the storm | G |
| The red levin flash and the thunder's dread rattle | H |
| The rock riven wave and the war trumpet's breath | I |
| The din of the tempest the yell of the battle | H |
| Nerve your steeled bosoms to danger and death | I |
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| III | A |
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| High on the brow of the Alps' snowy towers | J |
| The mountain Swiss measures his rock breasted moors | K |
| O'er his lone cottage the avalanche lowers | J |
| Round its rude portal the spring torrent pours | L |
| Sweet is his sleep amid peril and danger | B |
| Warm is his greeting to kindred and friends | M |
| Open his hand to the poor and the stranger | B |
| Stern on his foeman his sabre descends | M |
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| IV | E |
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| Lo where the tempest the dark waters sunder | B |
| Slumbers the sailor boy reckless and brave | E |
| Warm'd by the lighting and lulled by the thunder | B |
| Fann'd by the whirlwind and rock'd on the wave | E |
| Wildly the winter wind howls round his pillow | C |
| Cold on his bosom the spray showers fall | N |
| Creaks the strained mast at the rush of the billow | C |
| Peaceful he slumbers regardless of all | N |
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| V | E |
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| Mark how the cheek of the warrior flushes | O |
| As the battle drum beats and the war torches glare | P |
| Like a blast of the north to the onset he rushes | Q |
| And his wide waving falchion gleams brightly in air | P |
| Around him the death shot of foemen are flying | F |
| At his feet friends and comrades are yielding their breath | I |
| He strikes to the groans of the wounded and dying | F |
| But the war cry he strikes with is 'conquest or death ' | - |
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| VI | E |
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| Then pour thy broad wave like a flood from the heavens | R |
| Each son that thou rearest in the battle's wild shock | S |
| When the death speaking note of the trumpet is given | D |
| Will charge like thy torrent or stand like thy rock | S |
| Let his roof be the cloud and the rock be his pillow | C |
| Let him stride the rough mountain or toss on the foam | T |
| He will strike fast and well on the field or the billow | C |
| In triumph and glory for God and his home | T |
Joseph Rodman Drake
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