The Master-man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDFGHGHIJIKLMLM NONOPQPQRSRSABCB| O CAPTAIN of the Great Event | A |
| Which yet shall dew with crimson dew | B |
| The green coasts of our continent | C |
| I know not where to look for you | B |
| I know when doom shall mass about | D |
| Our shores and strike their music dumb | E |
| A something in your blood shall shout | D |
| 'The hour is mine Behold I come ' | F |
| For if one truth since time began | G |
| O'ertowers all other truths it is | H |
| There ever comes the Master Man | G |
| To make the epic moment his | H |
| In reeling ranks and riven steel | I |
| On red drenched fields and seas of blood | J |
| The bruised and broken foe shall feel | I |
| A valour not to be withstood | K |
| The crisis shall not lack its lord | L |
| The noon its sun the night its star | M |
| Beneath your high directing sword | L |
| The triumph tide shall surge afar | M |
| Till God make plain your path and fill | N |
| Your soul with martial ecstasy | O |
| Perchance you toil in mart or mill | N |
| Unconscious of your destiny | O |
| Perchance you wait the breathing hour | P |
| Unborn undrawn from distant spheres | Q |
| For though the clouds of menace lower | P |
| They may not break for years and years | Q |
| Yet be it soon or be it late | R |
| Or be it when this voice is mute | S |
| O guardian of our golden State | R |
| The foe shall find you resolute | S |
| O Captain of the Great Event | A |
| Which yet shall dew with crimson dew | B |
| The green coasts of our continent | C |
| A victor's laurels wait for you | B |
Roderic Quinn
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