Morris Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFE GHGH IIAAJJ KHKHKLLMHMNMN NHNIOPOIP| Oh from the deeds well done the blood well shed | A |
| In a good cause springs up to crown the land | B |
| With ever during verdure memory fed | A |
| Wherever freedom rears one fearless band | B |
| The genius which makes sacred time and place | C |
| Shaping the grand memorials of a race | C |
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| The barren rock becomes a monument | D |
| The sea shore sands a shrine | E |
| And each brave life in desperate conflict spent | F |
| Grows to a memory which prolongs a line | E |
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| Oh barren isle oh fruitless shore | G |
| Oh realm devoid of beauty how the light | H |
| From glory's sun streams down for evermore | G |
| Hallowing your ancient barrenness with bright | H |
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| Brief dates your lowly forts but full of glory | I |
| Worthy a life long story | I |
| Remembered to be chronicled and read | A |
| When all your gallant garrisons are dead | A |
| And to be sung | J |
| While liberty and letters find a tongue | J |
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| Taught by the grandsires at the ingle blaze | K |
| Through the long winter night | H |
| Pored over memoried well in winter days | K |
| While youthful admiration with delight | H |
| Hangs breathless o'er the tale with silent praise | K |
| Seasoning delight with wonder as he reads | L |
| Of stubborn conflict and audacious deeds | L |
| Watching the endurance of the free and brave | M |
| Through the protracted struggle and close fight | H |
| Contending for the lands they may not save | M |
| Against the felon and innumerous foe | N |
| Still struggling though each rampart proves a grave | M |
| For home and all that's dear to man below | N |
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| Earth reels and ocean rocks at every blow | N |
| But still undaunted with a martyr's might | H |
| They make for man a new Thermopylae | N |
| And perishing for freedom still go free | I |
| Let but each humble islet of our coast | O |
| Thus join the terrible issue to the last | P |
| And never shall the invader make his boast | O |
| Of triumph though with mightiest panoply | I |
| He seeks to rend and rive to blight and blast | P |
William Gilmore Simms
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