A Summons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDFGHGHIJDJIKIK LMLNJOJOIKIKPQPQJRJR PIPISTSTGUGVGWGWXYXZ JA2JA2JB2JB2| MEN of the North land where's the manly spirit | A |
| Of the true hearted and the unshackled gone | B |
| Sons of old freemen do we but inherit | A |
| Their names alone | C |
| Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us | D |
| Stoops the strong manhood of our souls so low | E |
| That Mammon's lure or Party's wile can win us | D |
| To silence now | F |
| Now when our land to ruin's brink is verging | G |
| In God's name let us speak while there is time | H |
| Now when the padlocks for our lips are forging | G |
| Silence is crime | H |
| What shall we henceforth humbly ask as favors | I |
| Rights all our own In madness shall we barter | J |
| For treacherous peace the freedom Nature gave us | D |
| God and our charter | J |
| Here shall the statesman forge his human fetters | I |
| Here the false jurist human rights deny | K |
| And in the church their proud and skilled abettors | I |
| Make truth a lie | K |
| Torture the pages of the hallowed Bible | L |
| To sanction crime and robbery and blood | M |
| And in Oppression's hateful service libel | L |
| Both man and God | N |
| Shall our New England stand erect no longer | J |
| But stoop in chains upon her downward way | O |
| Thicker to gather on her limbs and stronger | J |
| Day after day | O |
| Oh no methinks from all her wild green mountains | I |
| From valleys where her slumbering fathers lie | K |
| From her blue rivers and her welling fountains | I |
| And clear cold sky | K |
| From her rough coast and isles which hungry Ocean | P |
| Gnaws with his surges from the fisher's skiff | Q |
| With white sail swaying to the billows' motion | P |
| Round rock and cliff | Q |
| From the free fireside of her unbought farmer | J |
| From her free laborer at his loom and wheel | R |
| From the brown smith shop where beneath the hammer | J |
| Rings the red steel | R |
| From each and all if God hath not forsaken | P |
| Our land and left us to an evil choice | I |
| Loud as the summer thunderbolt shall waken | P |
| A People's voice | I |
| Startling and stern the Northern winds shall bear it | S |
| Over Potomac's to St Mary's wave | T |
| And buried Freedom shall awake to hear it | S |
| Within her grave | T |
| Oh let that voice go forth The bondman sighing | G |
| By Santee's wave in Mississippi's cane | U |
| Shall feel the hope within his bosom dying | G |
| Revive again | V |
| Let it go forth The millions who are gazing | G |
| Sadly upon us from afar shall smile | W |
| And unto God devout thanksgiving raising | G |
| Bless us the while | W |
| Oh for your ancient freedom pure and holy | X |
| For the deliverance of a groaning earth | Y |
| For the wronged captive bleeding crushed and lowly | X |
| Let it go forth | Z |
| Sons of the best of fathers will ye falter | J |
| With all they left ye perilled and at stake | A2 |
| Ho once again on Freedom's holy altar | J |
| The fire awake | A2 |
| Prayer strengthened for the trial come together | J |
| Put on the harness for the moral fight | B2 |
| And with the blessing of your Heavenly Father | J |
| Maintain the right | B2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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