Toast To Dayton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDFGHGHLove of home sublimest passion | A |
That the human heart can know | B |
Changeless still though fate and fashion | A |
Rise and fall and ebb and flow | B |
To the glory of our nation | A |
To the welfare of our state | C |
Let us all with veneration | A |
Every effort consecrate | C |
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And our city shall we fail her | D |
Or desert her gracious cause | E |
Nay with loyalty we hail her | D |
And revere her righteous laws | F |
She shall ever claim our duty | G |
For she shines the brightest gem | H |
That has ever decked with beauty | G |
Dear Ohio's diadem | H |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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