The Conquerors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBBC DDEDDE FFGFFG HHIHHI| THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA | A |
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| Round the wide earth from the red field your valour has won | B |
| Blown with the breath of the far speaking gun | B |
| Goes the word | C |
| Bravely you spoke through the battle cloud heavy and dun | B |
| Tossed though the speech toward the mist hidden sun | B |
| The world heard | C |
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| Hell would have shrunk from you seeking it fresh from the fray | D |
| Grim with the dust of the battle and gray | D |
| From the fight | E |
| Heaven would have crowned you with crowns not of gold but of bay | D |
| Owning you fit for the light of her day | D |
| Men of night | E |
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| Far through the cycle of years and of lives that shall come | F |
| There shall speak voices long muffled and dumb | F |
| Out of fear | G |
| And through the noises of trade and the turbulent hum | F |
| Truth shall rise over the militant drum | F |
| Loud and clear | G |
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| Then on the cheek of the honester nation that grows | H |
| All for their love of you not for your woes | H |
| There shall lie | I |
| Tears that shall be to your souls as the dew to the rose | H |
| Afterward thanks that the present yet knows | H |
| Not to ply | I |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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