Astraea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E FGFH ICIC JKJK LMLM NONO MKMK PEQE| 'Jove means to settle | A |
| Astraea in her seat again | B |
| And let down his golden chain | C |
| An age of better metal ' | D |
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| Ben Johnson | E |
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| O POET rare and old | F |
| Thy words are prophecies | G |
| Forward the age of gold | F |
| The new Saturnian lies | H |
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| The universal prayer | I |
| And hope are not in vain | C |
| Rise brothers and prepare | I |
| The way for Saturn's reign | C |
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| Perish shall all which takes | J |
| From labor's board and can | K |
| Perish shall all which makes | J |
| A spaniel of the man | K |
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| Free from its bonds the mind | L |
| The body from the rod | M |
| Broken all chains that bind | L |
| The image of our God | M |
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| Just men no longer pine | N |
| Behind their prison bars | O |
| Through the rent dungeon shine | N |
| The free sun and the stars | O |
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| Earth own at last untrod | M |
| By sect or caste or clan | K |
| The fatherhood of God | M |
| The brotherhood of man | K |
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| Fraud fail craft perish forth | P |
| The money changers driven | E |
| And God's will done on earth | Q |
| As now in heaven | E |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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