The Conquerors: The Black Troops In Cuba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CCDCCD EEFEEF GGHGGHRound 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 |
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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 |
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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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