A Word For The Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADDDEEFFGHHHEGGII CFJCKLKLG| The firmament breaks up In black eclipse | A |
| Light after light goes out One evil star | B |
| Luridly glaring through the smoke of war | C |
| As in the dream of the Apocalypse | A |
| Drags others down Let us not weakly weep | D |
| Nor rashly threaten Give us grace to keep | D |
| Our faith and patience wherefore should we leap | D |
| On one hand into fratricidal fight | E |
| Or on the other yield eternal right | E |
| Frame lies of laws and good and ill confound | F |
| What fear we Safe on freedom's vantage ground | F |
| Our feet are planted let us there remain | G |
| In unrevengeful calm no means untried | H |
| Which truth can sanction no just claim denied | H |
| The sad spectators of a suicide | H |
| They break the lines of Union shall we light | E |
| The fires of hell to weld anew the chain | G |
| On that red anvil where each blow is pain | G |
| Draw we not even now a freer breath | I |
| As from our shoulders falls a load of death | I |
| Loathsome as that the Tuscan's victim bore | C |
| When keen with life to a dead horror bound | F |
| Why take we up the accursed thing again | J |
| Pity forgive but urge them back no more | C |
| Who drunk with passion flaunt disunion's rag | K |
| With its vile reptile blazon Let us press | L |
| The golden cluster on our brave old flag | K |
| In closer union and if numbering less | L |
| Brighter shall shine the stars which still remain | G |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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