To The Miami Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDE FGHHHHH IJKKJLL IMNNOPP QRSSRTT HUVVUWWKiss me Miami thou most constant one | A |
I love thee more for that thou changest not | B |
When Winter comes with frigid blast | C |
Or when the blithesome Spring is past | C |
And Summer's here with sunshine hot | B |
Or in sere Autumn thou has still the pow'r | D |
To charm alike whate'er the hour | E |
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Kiss me Miami with thy dewy lips | F |
Throbs fast my heart e'en as thine own breast beats | G |
My soul doth rise as rise thy waves | H |
As each on each the dark shore laves | H |
And breaks in ripples and retreats | H |
There is a poem in thine every phase | H |
Thou still has sung through all thy days | H |
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Tell me Miami how it was with thee | I |
When years ago Tecumseh in his prime | J |
His birch boat o'er thy waters sent | K |
And pitched upon thy banks his tent | K |
In that long gone poetic time | J |
Did some bronze bard thy flowing stream sit by | L |
And sing thy praises e'en as I | L |
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Did some bronze lover 'neath this dark old tree | I |
Whisper of love unto his Indian maid | M |
And didst thou list his murmurs deep | N |
And in thy bosom safely keep | N |
The many raging vows they said | O |
Or didst thou tell to fish and frog and bird | P |
The raptured scenes that there occurred | P |
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But O dear stream what volumes thou couldst tell | Q |
To all who know thy language as I do | R |
Of life and love and jealous hate | S |
But now to tattle were too late | S |
Thou who hast ever been so true | R |
Tell not to every passing idler here | T |
All those sweet tales that reached thine ear | T |
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But silent stream speak out and tell me this | H |
I say that men and things are still the same | U |
Were men as bold to do and dare | V |
Were women then as true and fair | V |
Did poets seek celestial flame | U |
The hero die to gain a laureled brow | W |
And women suffer then as now | W |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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