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