Ethiopia Saluting The Colors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDD BBB BEE AFF| WHO are you dusky woman so ancient hardly human | A |
| With your woolly white and turban'd head and bare bony feet | B |
| Why rising by the roadside here do you the colors greet | B |
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| 'Tis while our army lines Carolina's sand and pines | C |
| Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me | D |
| As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea | D |
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| Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd | B |
| A little child they caught me as the savage beast is caught | B |
| Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought | B |
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| No further does she say but lingering all the day | B |
| Her high borne turban'd head she wags and rolls her darkling eye | E |
| And curtseys to the regiments the guidons moving by | E |
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| What is it fateful woman so blear hardly human | A |
| Why wag your head with turban bound yellow red and green | F |
| Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen | F |
Walt Whitman
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