O Star Of France Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKL MNN OIPQ IRSTUIVWX CY ZA2UIB2A C2D2E2F2RGG2H2| O STAR of France | A |
| The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame | B |
| Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long | C |
| Beseems to day a wreck driven by the gale a mastless hulk | D |
| And 'mid its teeming madden'd half drown'd crowds | E |
| Nor helm nor helmsman | F |
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| Dim smitten star | G |
| Orb not of France alone pale symbol of my soul its dearest hopes | H |
| The struggle and the daring rage divine for liberty | I |
| Of aspirations toward the far ideal enthusiast's dreams of | J |
| brotherhood | K |
| Of terror to the tyrant and the priest | L |
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| Star crucified by traitors sold | M |
| Star panting o'er a land of death heroic land | N |
| Strange passionate mocking frivolous land | N |
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| Miserable yet for thy errors vanities sins I will not now rebuke | O |
| thee | I |
| Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all | P |
| And left thee sacred | Q |
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| In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedest highly | I |
| In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the | R |
| price | S |
| In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy drugg'd sleep | T |
| In that alone among thy sisters thou Giantess didst rend the ones | U |
| that shamed thee | I |
| In that thou couldst not wouldst not wear the usual chains | V |
| This cross thy livid face thy pierced hands and feet | W |
| The spear thrust in thy side | X |
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| O star O ship of France beat back and baffled long | C |
| Bear up O smitten orb O ship continue on | Y |
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| Sure as the ship of all the Earth itself | Z |
| Product of deathly fire and turbulent chaos | A2 |
| Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons | U |
| Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty | I |
| Onward beneath the sun following its course | B2 |
| So thee O ship of France | A |
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| Finish'd the days the clouds dispell'd | C2 |
| The travail o'er the long sought extrication | D2 |
| When lo reborn high o'er the European world | E2 |
| In gladness answering thence as face afar to face reflecting | F2 |
| ours Columbia | R |
| Again thy star O France fair lustrous star | G |
| In heavenly peace clearer more bright than ever | G2 |
| Shall beam immortal | H2 |
Walt Whitman
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