Songs In Many Keys 1849-1861 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABABCDDEED FGGFFGGFHIIHHI B| The piping of our slender peaceful reeds | A |
| Whispers uncared for while the trumpets bray | B |
| Song is thin air our hearts' exulting play | B |
| Beats time but to the tread of marching deeds | A |
| Following the mighty van that Freedom leads | A |
| Her glorious standard flaming to the day | B |
| The crimsoned pavement where a hero bleeds | A |
| Breathes nobler lessons than the poet's lay | B |
| Strong arms broad breasts brave hearts are better worth | C |
| Than strains that sing the ravished echoes dumb | D |
| Hark 't is the loud reverberating drum | D |
| Rolls o'er the prairied West the rock bound North | E |
| The myriad handed Future stretches forth | E |
| Its shadowy palms Behold we come we come | D |
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| Turn o'er these idle leaves Such toys as these | F |
| Were not unsought for as in languid dreams | G |
| We lay beside our lotus feeding streams | G |
| And nursed our fancies in forgetful ease | F |
| It matters little if they pall or please | F |
| Dropping untimely while the sudden gleams | G |
| Glare from the mustering clouds whose blackness seems | G |
| Too swollen to hold its lightning from the trees | F |
| Yet in some lull of passion when at last | H |
| These calm revolving moons that come and go | I |
| Turning our months to years they creep so slow | I |
| Have brought us rest the not unwelcome past | H |
| May flutter to thee through these leaflets cast | H |
| On the wild winds that all around us blow | I |
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| May | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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