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