A Song For The Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPP| UP laggards of Freedom our free flag is cast | A |
| To the blaze of the sun and the wings of the blast | A |
| Will ye turn from a struggle so bravely begun | B |
| From a foe that is breaking a field that's half won | B |
| Whoso loves not his kind and who fears not the Lord | C |
| Let him join that foe's service accursed and abhorred | C |
| Let him do his base will as the slave only can | D |
| Let him put on the bloodhound and put off the Man | D |
| Let him go where the cold blood that creeps in his veins | E |
| Shall stiffen the slave whip and rust on his chains | E |
| Where the black slave shall laugh in his bonds to behold | F |
| The White Slave beside him self lettered and sold | F |
| But ye who still boast of hearts beating and warm | G |
| Rise from lake shore and ocean's like waves in a storm | G |
| Come throng round our banner in Liberty's name | H |
| Like winds from your mountains like prairies aflame | H |
| Our foe hidden long in his ambush of night | I |
| Now forced from his covert stands black in the light | I |
| Oh the cruel to Man and the hateful to God | J |
| Smite him down to the earth that is cursed where he trod | J |
| For deeper than thunder of summer's loud shower | K |
| On the dome of the sky God is striking the hour | K |
| Shall we falter before what we're prayed for so long | L |
| When the Wrong is so weak and the Right is so strong | L |
| Come forth all together come old and come young | M |
| Freedom's vote in each hand and her song on each tongue | M |
| Truth naked is stronger than Falsehood in mail | N |
| The Wrong cannot prosper the Right cannot fail | N |
| Like leaves of the summer once numbered the foe | O |
| But the hoar frost is falling the northern winds blow | O |
| Like leaves of November erelong shall they fall | P |
| For earth wearies of them and God's over all | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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