America To Russia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK GLGL MNMN OLOL PQPQ RSRS| AUGUST | A |
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| THOUGH watery deserts hold apart | B |
| The worlds of East and West | C |
| Still beats the selfsame human heart | B |
| In each proud Nation's breast | C |
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| Our floating turret tempts the main | D |
| And dares the howling blast | E |
| To clasp more close the golden chain | D |
| That long has bound them fast | E |
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| In vain the gales of ocean sweep | F |
| In vain the billows roar | G |
| That chafe the wild and stormy steep | F |
| Of storied Elsinore | G |
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| She comes She comes her banners dip | H |
| In Neva's flashing tide | I |
| With greetings on her cannon's lip | H |
| The storm god's iron bride | I |
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| Peace garlands with the olive bough | J |
| Her thunder bearing tower | K |
| And plants before her cleaving prow | J |
| The sea foam's milk white flower | K |
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| No prairies heaped their garnered store | G |
| To fill her sunless hold | L |
| Not rich Nevada's gleaming ore | G |
| Its hidden caves infold | L |
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| But lightly as the sea bird swings | M |
| She floats the depths above | N |
| A breath of flame to lend her wings | M |
| Her freight a people's love | N |
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| When darkness hid the starry skies | O |
| In war's long winter night | L |
| One ray still cheered our straining eyes | O |
| The far off Northern light | L |
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| And now the friendly rays return | P |
| From lights that glow afar | Q |
| Those clustered lamps of Heaven that burn | P |
| Around the Western Star | Q |
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| A nation's love in tears and smiles | R |
| We bear across the sea | S |
| O Neva of the banded isles | R |
| We moor our hearts in thee | S |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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