Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHCIJDKLMNOPQR STUVKTIWIXYBZA2IIB2C 2D2IE2IF2G2H2I2BZJ2K 2IZIL2IM2N2VM2O2P2MI CQ2E2R2C2E2S2When first in ancient time from Jubal's tongue | A |
The tuneful anthem filled the morning air | B |
To sacred hymnings and elysian song | C |
His music breathing sehll the minstrel woke | D |
Devotion breathed aloud from every chord | E |
The voice of praise was heard in every tone | F |
And prayer and thanks to Him the Eternal One | G |
To Him that with bright inspiration touched | H |
The high and gifted lyre of heavenly song | C |
And warmed the soul with new vitality | I |
A stirring energy through Nature breathed | J |
The voice of adoration from her broke | D |
Swelling aloud in every breeze and heard | K |
Long in the sullen waterfall what time | L |
Soft Spring or hoary Autumn threw on earth | M |
Its bloom or blighting when the summer smiled | N |
Or winter o'er the year's sepulcher mourned | O |
The Deity was there a nameless spirit | P |
Moved in the breasts of men to do him homage | Q |
And when the morning smiled or evening pale | R |
Hung weeping o'er the melancholy urn | S |
They came beneath the broad o'erarching trees | T |
And in their tremulous shadow worshipped oft | U |
Where pale the vine clung round their simple altars | V |
And gray moss mantling hung Above was heard | K |
The melody of winds breathed out as the green trees | T |
Bowed to their quivering touch in living beauty | I |
And birds sang forth their cheerful hymns Below | W |
The bright and widely wandering rivulet | I |
Struggled and gushed amongst the tangled roots | X |
That choked its reedy fountain and dark rocks | Y |
Worn smooth by the constant current Even there | B |
The listless wave that stole with mellow voice | Z |
Where reeds grew rank on the rushy fringed brink | A2 |
And the green sedge bent to the wandering wind | I |
Sang with a cheerful song of sweet tranquillity | I |
Men felt the heavenly influence and it stole | B2 |
Like balm into their hearts till all was peace | C2 |
And even the air they breathed the light they saw | D2 |
Became religion for the ethereal spirit | I |
That to soft music wakes the chords of feeling | E2 |
And mellows everything to beauty moved | I |
With cheering energy within their breasts | F2 |
And made all holy there for all was love | G2 |
The morning stars that sweetly sang together | H2 |
The moon that hung at night in the mid sky | I2 |
Dayspring and eventide and all the fair | B |
And beautiful forms of nature had a voice | Z |
Of eloquent worship Ocean with its tides | J2 |
Selling and deep where low the infant storm | K2 |
Hung on his dun dark cloud and heavily beat | I |
The pulses of the sea sent forth a voice | Z |
Of awful adoration to the spirit | I |
That wrapt in darkness moved upon its face | L2 |
And when the bow of evening arched the east | I |
Or in the moonlight pale the curling wave | M2 |
Kissed with a sweet embrace the sea worn beach | N2 |
And soft the song of winds came o'er the waters | V |
The mingled melody of wind and wave | M2 |
Touched like a heavenly anthem on the ear | O2 |
For it arose a tuneful hymn of worship | P2 |
And have our hearts grown cold Are there on earth | M |
No pure reflections caught from heavnly light | I |
Have our mute lips no hymn our souls no song | C |
Let him thatin the summer day of youth | Q2 |
Keeps pure the holy fount of youthful feeling | E2 |
And him that in the nightfall of his years | R2 |
Lies down in his last sleep and shuts in peace | C2 |
His dim pale eyes on life's short wayfaring | E2 |
Praise Him that rules the destiny of man | S2 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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