Ode-- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDEFFFE A DGDGHHIFFFI A JKJKFFLMMML E NFOFPPQRRRQ E FSFSTTUVWXU E PY YHHZA2A2A2 E B2C2B2C2D2D2E2F2F2F2 E2 E G2EG2EG2G2G2H2H2H2G2 F FI2FI2J2J2GEEEG F G2G2G2G2K2K2L2EEE F M2FM2FFFFH2H2H2F F FG2FG2G2G2G2N2N2N2G2I | A |
Our city by the sea | B |
As the rebel city known | C |
With a soul and spirit free | B |
As the waves that make her zone | C |
Stands in wait for the fate | D |
From the angry arm of hate | D |
But she nothing fears the terror of his blow | E |
She hath garrisoned her walls | F |
And for every son that falls | F |
She will spread a thousand palls | F |
For the foe | E |
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II | A |
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Old Moultrie at her gate | D |
Clad in arms and ancient fame | G |
Grimly watching stands elate | D |
To deliver bolt and flame | G |
Brave the band at command | H |
To illumine sea and land | H |
With a glory that shall honor days of yore | I |
And as racers for their goals | F |
A thousand fiery souls | F |
While the drum of battle rolls | F |
Line the shore | I |
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III | A |
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Lo rising at his side | J |
As if emulous to share | K |
His old historic pride | J |
The vast form of Sumter there | K |
Girt by waves which he braves | F |
Though the equinoctial raves | F |
As the mountain braves the lightning on his steep | L |
And like tigers crouching round | M |
Are the tribute forts that bound | M |
All the consecrated ground | M |
By the deep | L |
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IV | E |
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It was calm the April noon | N |
When in iron castled towers | F |
Our haughty foe came on | O |
With his aggregated powers | F |
All his might 'gainst the right | P |
Now embattled for the fight | P |
With Hell's hate and venom working in his heart | Q |
A vast and dread array | R |
Glooming black upon the day | R |
Hell's passions all in play | R |
With Hell's art | Q |
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V | E |
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But they trouble not the souls | F |
Of our Carolina host | S |
And the drum of battle rolls | F |
While each hero seeks his post | S |
Firm though few sworn to do | T |
Their old city full in view | T |
The brave city of their sires and their dead | U |
There each freeman had his brood | V |
All the dear ones of his blood | W |
And he knew they watching stood | X |
In their dread | U |
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VI | E |
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To the bare embattled height | P |
Then our gallant colonel sprung | Y |
'Bid them welcome to the fight ' | - |
Were the accents of his tongue | Y |
'Music band pour out grand | H |
The free song of Dixie Land | H |
Let it tell them we are joyful that they come | Z |
Bid them welcome drum and flute | A2 |
Nor be your cannon mute | A2 |
Give them chivalrous salute | A2 |
To their doom ' | - |
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VII | E |
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Out spoke an eager gun | B2 |
From the walls of Moultrie then | C2 |
And through clouds of sulph'rous dun | B2 |
Rose a shout of thousand men | C2 |
As the shot hissing hot | D2 |
Goes in lightning to the spot | D2 |
Goes crashing wild through timber and through mail | E2 |
Then roared the storm from all | F2 |
Moultrie's ports and Sumter's wall | F2 |
Bursting bomb and driving ball | F2 |
Hell in hail | E2 |
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VIII | E |
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Full a hundred cannon roared | G2 |
The dread welcome to the foe | E |
And his felon spirit cowered | G2 |
As he crouched beneath the blow | E |
As each side opened wide | G2 |
To the iron and the tide | G2 |
He lost his faith in armor and in art | G2 |
And with the loss of faith | H2 |
Came the dread of wounds and scath | H2 |
And the felon fear of death | H2 |
Wrung his heart | G2 |
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IX | F |
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Quenched then his foul desires | F |
In his mortal pain and fear | I2 |
How feeble grew his fires | F |
How stayed his fell career | I2 |
How each keel made to reel | J2 |
'Neath our thunder seems to kneel | J2 |
Their turrets staggering wildly to and fro blind and lame | G |
Ironsides and iron roof | E |
Held no longer bullet proof | E |
Steal away shrink aloof | E |
In their shame | G |
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X | F |
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But our lightnings follow fast | G2 |
With a vengeance sharp and hot | G2 |
Our bolts are on the blast | G2 |
And they rive with shell and shot | G2 |
Huge the form which they warm | K2 |
With the hot breath of the storm | K2 |
Dread the crash which follows as each Titan mass is struck | L2 |
They shiver as they fly | E |
While their leader drifting nigh | E |
Sinks choking with the cry | E |
'Keokuk ' | - |
XI | F |
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To the brave old city joy | M2 |
For that the hostile race | F |
Commissioned to destroy | M2 |
Hath fled in sore disgrace | F |
That our sons at their guns | F |
Have beat back the modern Huns | F |
Have maintained their household fanes and their fires | F |
And free from taint and scath | H2 |
Have kept the fame and faith | H2 |
And will keep through blood and death | H2 |
Of their sires | F |
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XII | F |
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To the Lord of Hosts the glory | F |
For His the arm and might | G2 |
That have writ for us the story | F |
And have borne us through the fight | G2 |
His our shield in that field | G2 |
Voice that bade us never yield | G2 |
Oh had he not been with us through the terrors of that day | G2 |
His strength hath made us strong | N2 |
Cheered the right and crushed the wrong | N2 |
To His temple let us throng | N2 |
PRAISE AND PRAY | G2 |
William Gilmore Simms
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