Thanksgiving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHCIJDKLMNOPQR STUVKTIWIXYBZA2IIB2C 2D2IE2IF2G2H2I2BZJ2K 2IZIL2IM2N2VM2O2P2MI CQ2E2R2C2E2S2

When first in ancient time from Jubal's tongueA
The tuneful anthem filled the morning airB
To sacred hymnings and elysian songC
His music breathing sehll the minstrel wokeD
Devotion breathed aloud from every chordE
The voice of praise was heard in every toneF
And prayer and thanks to Him the Eternal OneG
To Him that with bright inspiration touchedH
The high and gifted lyre of heavenly songC
And warmed the soul with new vitalityI
A stirring energy through Nature breathedJ
The voice of adoration from her brokeD
Swelling aloud in every breeze and heardK
Long in the sullen waterfall what timeL
Soft Spring or hoary Autumn threw on earthM
Its bloom or blighting when the summer smiledN
Or winter o'er the year's sepulcher mournedO
The Deity was there a nameless spiritP
Moved in the breasts of men to do him homageQ
And when the morning smiled or evening paleR
Hung weeping o'er the melancholy urnS
They came beneath the broad o'erarching treesT
And in their tremulous shadow worshipped oftU
Where pale the vine clung round their simple altarsV
And gray moss mantling hung Above was heardK
The melody of winds breathed out as the green treesT
Bowed to their quivering touch in living beautyI
And birds sang forth their cheerful hymns BelowW
The bright and widely wandering rivuletI
Struggled and gushed amongst the tangled rootsX
That choked its reedy fountain and dark rocksY
Worn smooth by the constant current Even thereB
The listless wave that stole with mellow voiceZ
Where reeds grew rank on the rushy fringed brinkA2
And the green sedge bent to the wandering windI
Sang with a cheerful song of sweet tranquillityI
Men felt the heavenly influence and it stoleB2
Like balm into their hearts till all was peaceC2
And even the air they breathed the light they sawD2
Became religion for the ethereal spiritI
That to soft music wakes the chords of feelingE2
And mellows everything to beauty movedI
With cheering energy within their breastsF2
And made all holy there for all was loveG2
The morning stars that sweetly sang togetherH2
The moon that hung at night in the mid skyI2
Dayspring and eventide and all the fairB
And beautiful forms of nature had a voiceZ
Of eloquent worship Ocean with its tidesJ2
Selling and deep where low the infant stormK2
Hung on his dun dark cloud and heavily beatI
The pulses of the sea sent forth a voiceZ
Of awful adoration to the spiritI
That wrapt in darkness moved upon its faceL2
And when the bow of evening arched the eastI
Or in the moonlight pale the curling waveM2
Kissed with a sweet embrace the sea worn beachN2
And soft the song of winds came o'er the watersV
The mingled melody of wind and waveM2
Touched like a heavenly anthem on the earO2
For it arose a tuneful hymn of worshipP2
And have our hearts grown cold Are there on earthM
No pure reflections caught from heavnly lightI
Have our mute lips no hymn our souls no songC
Let him thatin the summer day of youthQ2
Keeps pure the holy fount of youthful feelingE2
And him that in the nightfall of his yearsR2
Lies down in his last sleep and shuts in peaceC2
His dim pale eyes on life's short wayfaringE2
Praise Him that rules the destiny of manS2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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