Black Sampson Of Brandywine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEDFGHG IJKJFGDG LDDDMNIN DONPMNQN NRMRLSDS MMDMMNMN'In the fight at Brandywine Black Samson a giant negro armed with | A |
a scythe sweeps his way through the red ranks ' C M Skinner's | B |
' Myths and Legends of Our Own Land ' | C |
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Gray are the pages of record | D |
Dim are the volumes of eld | D |
Else had old Delaware told us | E |
More that her history held | D |
Told us with pride in the story | F |
Honest and noble and fine | G |
More of the tale of my hero | H |
Black Samson of Brandywine | G |
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Sing of your chiefs and your nobles | I |
Saxon and Celt and Gaul | J |
Breath of mine ever shall join you | K |
Highly I honor them all | J |
Give to them all of their glory | F |
But for this noble of mine | G |
Lend him a tithe of your tribute | D |
Black Samson of Brandywine | G |
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There in the heat of the battle | L |
There in the stir of the fight | D |
Loomed he an ebony giant | D |
Black as the pinions of night | D |
Swinging his scythe like a mower | M |
Over a field of grain | N |
Needless the care of the gleaners | I |
Where he had passed amain | N |
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Straight through the human harvest | D |
Cutting a bloody swath | O |
Woe to you soldier of Briton | N |
Death is abroad in his path | P |
Flee from the scythe of the reaper | M |
Flee while the moment is thine | N |
None may with safety withstand him | Q |
Black Samson of Brandywine | N |
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Was he a freeman or bondman | N |
Was he a man or a thing | R |
What does it matter His brav'ry | M |
Renders him royal a king | R |
If he was only a chattel | L |
Honor the ransom may pay | S |
Of the royal the loyal black giant | D |
Who fought for his country that day | S |
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Noble and bright is the story | M |
Worthy the touch of the lyre | M |
Sculptor or poet should find it | D |
Full of the stuff to inspire | M |
Beat it in brass and in copper | M |
Tell it in storied line | N |
So that the world may remember | M |
Black Samson of Brandywine | N |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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