whenpigzfly93
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The poem Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar:
Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days,
Such days as thou, not even though didst know
When thee, the eyes of that harsh long ago
Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways
And all the country heard of thee with amaze.
Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow
The awful tide that battled to and fro
We ride amid a tempest of dispraise
Now, when the waves of swift dissension form,
And Honor, the strong pilot, lieth stark,
Oh for they voice high-sounding o'er the storm,
For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark,
The blast-defying power of thy form,
To give us comfort through the lonely dark
Also, what is the rhyme scheme? Thanks!
Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days,
Such days as thou, not even though didst know
When thee, the eyes of that harsh long ago
Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways
And all the country heard of thee with amaze.
Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow
The awful tide that battled to and fro
We ride amid a tempest of dispraise
Now, when the waves of swift dissension form,
And Honor, the strong pilot, lieth stark,
Oh for they voice high-sounding o'er the storm,
For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark,
The blast-defying power of thy form,
To give us comfort through the lonely dark
Also, what is the rhyme scheme? Thanks!