A Nation's Strength Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB JAJA| What makes a nation's pillars high | A |
| And its foundations strong | B |
| What makes it mighty to defy | A |
| The foes that round it throng | B |
| - | |
| It is not gold Its kingdoms grand | C |
| Go down in battle shock | D |
| Its shafts are laid on sinking sand | C |
| Not on abiding rock | D |
| - | |
| Is it the sword Ask the red dust | E |
| Of empires passed away | F |
| The blood has turned their stones to rust | E |
| Their glory to decay | F |
| - | |
| And is it pride Ah that bright crown | G |
| Has seemed to nations sweet | H |
| But God has struck its luster down | G |
| In ashes at his feet | H |
| - | |
| Not gold but only men can make | I |
| A people great and strong | B |
| Men who for truth and honor's sake | I |
| Stand fast and suffer long | B |
| - | |
| Brave men who work while others sleep | J |
| Who dare while others fly | A |
| They build a nation's pillars deep | J |
| And lift them to the sky | A |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(21)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about A Nation's Strength poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ragavi: Super poem
Umer shahzad.: There is no explanation of poetic devices in detail.This web is use less.
Best Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson