A Welcome To Lowell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GCGH IJKL IMNM OPGP CQIQ GRSR GTUT UUVU WPAP WXVX| Take our hands James Russell Lowell | A |
| Our hearts are all thy own | B |
| To day we bid thee welcome | C |
| Not for ourselves alone | B |
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| In the long years of thy absence | D |
| Some of us have grown old | E |
| And some have passed the portals | F |
| Of the Mystery untold | E |
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| For the hands that cannot clasp thee | G |
| For the voices that are dumb | C |
| For each and all I bid thee | G |
| A grateful welcome home | H |
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| For Cedarcroft's sweet singer | I |
| To the nine fold Muses dear | J |
| For the Seer the winding Concord | K |
| Paused by his door to hear | L |
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| For him our guide and Nestor | I |
| Who the march of song began | M |
| The white locks of his ninety years | N |
| Bared to thy winds Cape Ann | M |
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| For him who to the music | O |
| Her pines and hemlocks played | P |
| Set the old and tender story | G |
| Of the lorn Acadian maid | P |
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| For him whose voice for freedom | C |
| Swayed friend and foe at will | Q |
| Hushed is the tongue of silver | I |
| The golden lips are still | Q |
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| For her whose life of duty | G |
| At scoff and menace smiled | R |
| Brave as the wife of Roland | S |
| Yet gentle as a Child | R |
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| And for him the three hilled city | G |
| Shall hold in memory long | T |
| Those name is the hint and token | U |
| Of the pleasant Fields of Song | T |
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| For the old friends unforgotten | U |
| For the young thou hast not known | U |
| I speak their heart warm greeting | V |
| Come back and take thy own | U |
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| From England's royal farewells | W |
| And honors fitly paid | P |
| Come back dear Russell Lowell | A |
| To Elmwood's waiting shade | P |
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| Come home with all the garlands | W |
| That crown of right thy head | X |
| I speak for comrades living | V |
| I speak for comrades dead | X |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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