The Banner Of The Jew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLMLNN LOPOQQ HOHONN LR| Wake Israel wake Recall to day | A |
| The glorious Maccabean rage | B |
| The sire heroic hoary gray | A |
| His five fold lion lineage | C |
| The Wise the Elect the Help of God | D |
| The Burst of Spring the Avenging Rod | D |
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| From Mizpeh's mountain ridge they saw | E |
| Jerusalem's empty streets her shrine | F |
| Laid waste where Greeks profaned the Law | E |
| With idol and with pagan sign | F |
| Mourners in tattered black were there | G |
| With ashes sprinkled on their hair | G |
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| Then from the stony peak there rang | H |
| A blast to ope the graves down poured | I |
| The Maccabean clan who sang | H |
| Their battle anthem to the Lord | I |
| Five heroes lead and following see | J |
| Ten thousand rush to victory | J |
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| Oh for Jerusalem's trumpet now | K |
| To blow a blast of shattering power | L |
| To wake the sleepers high and low | M |
| And rouse them to the urgent hour | L |
| No hand for vengeance but to save | N |
| A million naked swords should wave | N |
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| Oh deem not dead that martial fire | L |
| Say not the mystic flame is spent | O |
| With Moses' law and David's lyre | P |
| Your ancient strength remains unbent | O |
| Let but an Ezra rise anew | Q |
| To lift the BANNER OF THE JEW | Q |
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| A rag a mock at first erelong | H |
| When men have bled and women wept | O |
| To guard its precious folds from wrong | H |
| Even they who shrunk even they who slept | O |
| Shall leap to bless it and to save | N |
| Strike for the brave revere the brave | N |
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| The sons of Mattathias Jonanthan John Eleazer | L |
| Simon also called the Jewel and Jonas the Prince | R |
Emma Lazarus
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