His Excellency General Washington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEE FFFFGGHHGDAAIIGG JJFFFFKKLL MMNN| Celestial choir enthron'd in realms of light | A |
| Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write | A |
| While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms | B |
| She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms | B |
| See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan | C |
| And nations gaze at scenes before unknown | C |
| See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light | A |
| Involved in sorrows and the veil of night | A |
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| The Goddess comes she moves divinely fair | D |
| Olive and laurel binds Her golden hair | D |
| Wherever shines this native of the skies | E |
| Unnumber'd charms and recent graces rise | E |
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| Muse Bow propitious while my pen relates | F |
| How pour her armies through a thousand gates | F |
| As when Eolus heaven's fair face deforms | F |
| Enwrapp'd in tempest and a night of storms | F |
| Astonish'd ocean feels the wild uproar | G |
| The refluent surges beat the sounding shore | G |
| Or think as leaves in Autumn's golden reign | H |
| Such and so many moves the warrior's train | H |
| In bright array they seek the work of war | G |
| Where high unfurl'd the ensign waves in air | D |
| Shall I to Washington their praise recite | A |
| Enough thou know'st them in the fields of fight | A |
| Thee first in peace and honors we demand | I |
| The grace and glory of thy martial band | I |
| Fam'd for thy valour for thy virtues more | G |
| Hear every tongue thy guardian aid implore | G |
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| One century scarce perform'd its destined round | J |
| When Gallic powers Columbia's fury found | J |
| And so may you whoever dares disgrace | F |
| The land of freedom's heaven defended race | F |
| Fix'd are the eyes of nations on the scales | F |
| For in their hopes Columbia's arm prevails | F |
| Anon Britannia droops the pensive head | K |
| While round increase the rising hills of dead | K |
| Ah Cruel blindness to Columbia's state | L |
| Lament thy thirst of boundless power too late | L |
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| Proceed great chief with virtue on thy side | M |
| Thy ev'ry action let the Goddess guide | M |
| A crown a mansion and a throne that shine | N |
| With gold unfading WASHINGTON Be thine | N |
Phillis Wheatley
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