Ode To Ethiopia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDAEEA FFGHHI JJGAAG KKGLLG MMNOON PPAQQA RRBAAB| O Mother Race to thee I bring | A |
| This pledge of faith unwavering | A |
| This tribute to thy glory | B |
| I know the pangs which thou didst feel | C |
| When Slavery crushed thee with its heel | C |
| With thy dear blood all gory | B |
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| Sad days were those ah sad indeed | D |
| But through the land the fruitful seed | D |
| Of better times was growing | A |
| The plant of freedom upward sprung | E |
| And spread its leaves so fresh and young | E |
| Its blossoms now are blowing | A |
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| On every hand in this fair land | F |
| Proud Ethiope's swarthy children stand | F |
| Beside their fairer neighbor | G |
| The forests flee before their stroke | H |
| Their hammers ring their forges smoke | H |
| They stir in honest labour | I |
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| They tread the fields where honour calls | J |
| Their voices sound through senate halls | J |
| In majesty and power | G |
| To right they cling the hymns they sing | A |
| Up to the skies in beauty ring | A |
| And bolder grow each hour | G |
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| Be proud my Race in mind and soul | K |
| Thy name is writ on Glory's scroll | K |
| In characters of fire | G |
| High 'mid the clouds of Fame's bright sky | L |
| Thy banner's blazoned folds now fly | L |
| And truth shall lift them higher | G |
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| Thou hast the right to noble pride | M |
| Whose spotless robes were purified | M |
| By blood's severe baptism | N |
| Upon thy brow the cross was laid | O |
| And labour's painful sweat beads made | O |
| A consecrating chrism | N |
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| No other race or white or black | P |
| When bound as thou wert to the rack | P |
| So seldom stooped to grieving | A |
| No other race when free again | Q |
| Forgot the past and proved them men | Q |
| So noble in forgiving | A |
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| Go on and up Our souls and eyes | R |
| Shall follow thy continuous rise | R |
| Our ears shall list thy story | B |
| From bards who from thy root shall spring | A |
| And proudly tune their lyres to sing | A |
| Of Ethiopia's glory | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Mikael Belay: Such a wonderful tribute to the sacrifice Ethiopians made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries anti-colonial wars.
Brilliant!!!
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