Birthday Of Daniel Webster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE DFDF GHGH DIDI DJDJ DKDK LMLM NINO KPKP QAQA RSRS NTNT DIDN CUCU DVDVJANUARY | A |
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WHEN life hath run its largest round | B |
Of toil and triumph joy and woe | C |
How brief a storied page is found | B |
To compass all its outward show | C |
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The world tried sailor tires and droops | D |
His flag is rent his keel forgot | E |
His farthest voyages seem but loops | D |
That float from life's entangled knot | E |
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But when within the narrow space | D |
Some larger soul hath lived and wrought | F |
Whose sight was open to embrace | D |
The boundless realms of deed and thought | F |
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When stricken by the freezing blast | G |
A nation's living pillars fall | H |
How rich the storied page how vast | G |
A word a whisper can recall | H |
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No medal lifts its fretted face | D |
Nor speaking marble cheats your eye | I |
Yet while these pictured lines I trace | D |
A living image passes by | I |
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A roof beneath the mountain pines | D |
The cloisters of a hill girt plain | J |
The front of life's embattled lines | D |
A mound beside the heaving main | J |
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These are the scenes a boy appears | D |
Set life's round dial in the sun | K |
Count the swift arc of seventy years | D |
His frame is dust his task is done | K |
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Yet pause upon the noontide hour | L |
Ere the declining sun has laid | M |
His bleaching rays on manhood's power | L |
And look upon the mighty shade | M |
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No gloom that stately shape can hide | N |
No change uncrown its brow behold I | I |
Dark calm large fronted lightning eyed | N |
Earth has no double from its mould | O |
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Ere from the fields by valor won | K |
The battle smoke had rolled away | P |
And bared the blood red setting sun | K |
His eyes were opened on the day | P |
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His land was but a shelving strip | Q |
Black with the strife that made it free | A |
He lived to see its banners dip | Q |
Their fringes in the Western sea | A |
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The boundless prairies learned his name | R |
His words the mountain echoes knew | S |
The Northern breezes swept his fame | R |
From icy lake to warm bayou | S |
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In toil he lived in peace he died | N |
When life's full cycle was complete | T |
Put off his robes of power and pride | N |
And laid them at his Master's feet | T |
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His rest is by the storm swept waves | D |
Whom life's wild tempests roughly trie | I |
Whose heart was like the streaming eaves | D |
Of ocean throbbing at his side | N |
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Death's cold white hand is like the snow | C |
Laid softly on the furrowed hill | U |
It hides the broken seams below | C |
And leaves the summit brighter still | U |
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In vain the envious tongue upbraids | D |
His name a nation's heart shall keep | V |
Till morning's latest sunlight fades | D |
On the blue tablet of the deep | V |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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