Columbian Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDF A GHGHIJIJKLKL A MNMOPQPQRSRSTUTU| I | A |
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| Four hundred years ago a tangled waste | B |
| Lay sleeping on the west Atlantic's side | C |
| Their devious ways the Old World's millions traced | B |
| Content and loved and labored dared and died | C |
| While students still believed the charts they conned | D |
| And revelled in their thriftless ignorance | E |
| Nor dreamed of other lands that lay beyond | D |
| Old Ocean's dense indefinite expanse | F |
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| II | A |
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| But deep within her heart old Nature knew | G |
| That she had once arrayed at Earth's behest | H |
| Another offspring fine and fair to view | G |
| The chosen suckling of the mother's breast | H |
| The child was wrapped in vestments soft and fine | I |
| Each fold a work of Nature's matchless art | J |
| The mother looked on it with love divine | I |
| And strained the loved one closely to her heart | J |
| And there it lay and with the warmth grew strong | K |
| And hearty by the salt sea breezes fanned | L |
| Till Time with mellowing touches passed along | K |
| And changed the infant to a mighty land | L |
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| III | A |
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| But men knew naught of this till there arose | M |
| That mighty mariner the Genoese | N |
| Who dared to try in spite of fears and foes | M |
| The unknown fortunes of unsounded seas | O |
| O noblest of Italia's sons thy bark | P |
| Went not alone into that shrouding night | Q |
| O dauntless darer of the rayless dark | P |
| The world sailed with thee to eternal light | Q |
| The deer haunts that with game were crowded then | R |
| To day are tilled and cultivated lands | S |
| The schoolhouse tow'rs where Bruin had his den | R |
| And where the wigwam stood the chapel stands | S |
| The place that nurtured men of savage mien | T |
| Now teems with men of Nature's noblest types | U |
| Where moved the forest foliage banner green | T |
| Now flutters in the breeze the stars and stripes | U |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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