A Greeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDDEEFGHH IIJHKKLLMMNNOOPPQQIR SSCCHH AATTUUVVWWXXHH| Thrice welcome from the Land of Flowers | A |
| And golden fruited orange bowers | A |
| To this sweet green turfed June of ours | A |
| To her who in our evil time | B |
| Dragged into light the nation's crime | B |
| With strength beyond the strength of men | C |
| And mightier than their swords her pen | C |
| To her who world wide entrance gave | D |
| To the log cabin of the slave | D |
| Made all his wrongs and sorrows known | E |
| And all earth's languages his own | E |
| North South and East and West made all | F |
| The common air electrical | G |
| Until the o'ercharged bolts of heaven | H |
| Blazed down and every chain was riven | H |
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| Welcome from each and all to her | I |
| Whose Wooing of the Minister | I |
| Revealed the warm heart of the man | J |
| Beneath the creed bound Puritan | H |
| And taught the kinship of the love | K |
| Of man below and God above | K |
| To her whose vigorous pencil strokes | L |
| Sketched into life her Oldtown Folks | L |
| Whose fireside stories grave or gay | M |
| In quaint Sam Lawson's vagrant way | M |
| With old New England's flavor rife | N |
| Waifs from her rude idyllic life | N |
| Are racy as the legends old | O |
| By Chaucer or Boccaccio told | O |
| To her who keeps through change of place | P |
| And time her native strength and grace | P |
| Alike where warm Sorrento smiles | Q |
| Or where by birchen shaded isles | Q |
| Whose summer winds have shivered o'er | I |
| The icy drift of Labrador | R |
| She lifts to light the priceless Pearl | S |
| Of Harpswell's angel beckoned girl | S |
| To her at threescore years and ten | C |
| Be tributes of the tongue and pen | C |
| Be honor praise and heart thanks given | H |
| The loves of earth the hopes of heaven | H |
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| Ah dearer than the praise that stirs | A |
| The air to day our love is hers | A |
| She needs no guaranty of fame | T |
| Whose own is linked with Freedom's name | T |
| Long ages after ours shall keep | U |
| Her memory living while we sleep | U |
| The waves that wash our gray coast lines | V |
| The winds that rock the Southern pines | V |
| Shall sing of her the unending years | W |
| Shall tell her tale in unborn ears | W |
| And when with sins and follies past | X |
| Are numbered color hate and caste | X |
| White black and red shall own as one | H |
| The noblest work by woman done | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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