The Fate Of Bass - (a Fancy) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HFHF IJIJ KLKM NONO| The Fate Of Bass A Fancy | A |
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| On the snow line of the summit stood the Spaniard's English slave | B |
| And the frighted condor westward flew afar | C |
| Where the torch of Cotopaxi lit the wide Pacific wave | B |
| And the tender moon embraced a new born star | C |
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| Blanched the cheek that Austral breezes off Van Diemen's coast had tanned | D |
| Bent the form that on the deck stood stalwart there | E |
| Slim and pallid as a woman's was the sailor's sunburnt hand | D |
| And untimely silver streaked the strong man's hair | E |
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| From the forest far beneath him came the baffled bloodhound's bay | F |
| From the gusty slope the camp fire's fitful glow | G |
| But the pass the Indian told of o'er the cliff beside him lay | F |
| And beyond the Mighty River's eastward flow | G |
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| Mine the secret of the Incas to the tyrants never told | H |
| Mine the Cloven Rock the league long Sculptured Way | F |
| Ere the weary scouts awaken ere the embers are grown cold | H |
| Ere the dogs in dreams their quarry seize and slay | F |
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| Freedom's threshold yet he tarries gazes seaward southward still | I |
| Past the gulfs where fainting chain gangs toil entombed | J |
| And the furnace of the smelter taints the winds of every hill | I |
| With the fumes that swathe the dying and the doomed | J |
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| Never never gallant seaman may the land that lit thy dreams | K |
| In the starless drive make glad thine eyes again | L |
| Where through tropic heavens at midnight the Antarctic glory streams | K |
| And a sea of blossom floods the wintry plain | M |
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| Nevermore the settler's welcome at the sinking of the sun | N |
| Nor his godspeed 'mid the fragrant Austral morn | O |
| Shattered spent and broken hearted yet a guerdon thou hast won | N |
| And where brave souls meet thou shalt not stand forlorn | O |
Mary Hannay Foott
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