To The Genius Of Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEEDE FGGFHGIAA HHJDJDKK LLMAMAALL MMAANJLLOOAAP LLJJAAQQ AAARRALLAA| O thou who from the mountain's height | A |
| Roll'st down thy clouds with all their weight | B |
| Of waters to old Niles majestic tide | C |
| Or o'er the dark sepulchral plain | D |
| Recallest thy Palmyra's ancient pride | C |
| Amid whose desolated domes | E |
| Secure the savage chacal roams | E |
| Where from the fragments of the hallow'd fane | D |
| The Arabs rear their miserable homes | E |
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| Hear Genius hear thy children's cry | F |
| Not always should'st thou love to brood | G |
| Stern o'er the desert solitude | G |
| Where seas of sand toss their hot surges high | F |
| Nor Genius should the midnight song | H |
| Detain thee in some milder mood | G |
| The palmy plains among | I |
| Where Gambia to the torches light | A |
| Flows radiant thro' the awaken'd night | A |
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| Ah linger not to hear the song | H |
| Genius avenge thy children's wrong | H |
| The Daemon COMMERCE on your shore | J |
| Pours all the horrors of his train | D |
| And hark where from the field of gore | J |
| Howls the hyena o'er the slain | D |
| Lo where the flaming village fires the skies | K |
| Avenging Power awake arise | K |
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| Arise thy children's wrong redress | L |
| Ah heed the mother's wretchedness | L |
| When in the hot infectious air | M |
| O'er her sick babe she bows opprest | A |
| Ah hear her when the Christians tear | M |
| The drooping infant from her breast | A |
| Whelm'd in the waters he shall rest | A |
| Hear thou the wretched mother's cries | L |
| Avenging Power awake arise | L |
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| By the rank infected air | M |
| That taints those dungeons of despair | M |
| By those who there imprison'd die | A |
| Where the black herd promiscuous lie | A |
| By the scourges blacken'd o'er | N |
| And stiff and hard with human gore | J |
| By every groan of deep distress | L |
| By every curse of wretchedness | L |
| By all the train of Crimes that flow | O |
| From the hopelessness of Woe | O |
| By every drop of blood bespilt | A |
| By Afric's wrongs and Europe's guilt | A |
| Awake arise avenge | P |
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| And thou hast heard and o'er their blood fed plains | L |
| Swept thine avenging hurricanes | L |
| And bade thy storms with whirlwind roar | J |
| Dash their proud navies on the shore | J |
| And where their armies claim'd the fight | A |
| Wither'd the warrior's might | A |
| And o'er the unholy host with baneful breath | Q |
| There Genius thou hast breath'd the gales of Death | Q |
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| So perish still the robbers of mankind | A |
| What tho' from Justice bound and blind | A |
| Inhuman Power has snatch'd the sword | A |
| What tho' thro' many an ignominious age | R |
| That Fiend with desolating rage | R |
| The tide of carnage pour'd | A |
| Justice shall yet unclose her eyes | L |
| Terrific yet in wrath arise | L |
| And trample on the tyrant's breast | A |
| And make Oppresion groan opprest | A |
Robert Southey
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