At The Banquet To The Chinese Embassy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFGG HHIIJJ KKLLMM HHNNHH HHOOPP JJQQRR SSTTUU| AUGUST | A |
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| BROTHERS whom we may not reach | B |
| Through the veil of alien speech | B |
| Welcome welcome eyes can tell | C |
| What the lips in vain would spell | C |
| Words that hearts can understand | D |
| Brothers from the Flowery Land | D |
| - | |
| We the evening's latest born | E |
| Hail the children of the morn | E |
| We the new creation's birth | F |
| Greet the lords of ancient earth | F |
| From their storied walls and towers | G |
| Wandering to these tents of ours | G |
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| Land of wonders fair Cathay | H |
| Who long hast shunned the staring day | H |
| Hid in mists of poet's dreams | I |
| By thy blue and yellow streams | I |
| Let us thy shadowed form behold | J |
| Teach us as thou didst of old | J |
| - | |
| Knowledge dwells with length of days | K |
| Wisdom walks in ancient ways | K |
| Thine the compass that could guide | L |
| A nation o'er the stormy tide | L |
| Scourged by passions doubts and fears | M |
| Safe through thrice a thousand years | M |
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| Looking from thy turrets gray | H |
| Thou hast seen the world's decay | H |
| Egypt drowning in her sands | N |
| Athens rent by robbers' hands | N |
| Rome the wild barbarian's prey | H |
| Like a storm cloud swept away | H |
| - | |
| Looking from thy turrets gray | H |
| Still we see thee Where are they | H |
| And to I a new born nation waits | O |
| Sitting at the golden gates | O |
| That glitter by the sunset sea | P |
| Waits with outspread arms for thee | P |
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| Open wide ye gates of gold | J |
| To the Dragon's banner fold | J |
| Builders of the mighty wall | Q |
| Bid your mountain barriers fall | Q |
| So may the girdle of the sun | R |
| Bind the East and West in one | R |
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| Till Mount Shasta's breezes fan | S |
| The snowy peaks of Ta Sieue Shan | S |
| Till Erie blends its waters blue | T |
| With the waves of Tung Ting Hu | T |
| Till deep Missouri lends its flow | U |
| To swell the rushing Hoang Ho | U |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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