Banished From Massachusetts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEDFGGHII JKKJLGGLMNNMII OPP LQQLRGGRSSTUUTVWWVXY YXZZ| Over the threshold of his pleasant home | A |
| Set in green clearings passed the exiled Friend | B |
| In simple trust misdoubting not the end | B |
| 'Dear heart of mine ' he said 'the time has come | C |
| To trust the Lord for shelter ' One long gaze | D |
| The goodwife turned on each familiar thing | E |
| The lowing kine the orchard blossoming | E |
| The open door that showed the hearth fire's blaze | D |
| And calmly answered 'Yes He will provide ' | F |
| Silent and slow they crossed the homestead's bound | G |
| Lingering the longest by their child's grave mound | G |
| 'Move on or stay and hang ' the sheriff cried | H |
| They left behind them more than home or land | I |
| And set sad faces to an alien strand | I |
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| Safer with winds and waves than human wrath | J |
| With ravening wolves than those whose zeal for God | K |
| Was cruelty to man the exiles trod | K |
| Drear leagues of forest without guide or path | J |
| Or launching frail boats on the uncharted sea | L |
| Round storm vexed capes whose teeth of granite ground | G |
| The waves to foam their perilous way they wound | G |
| Enduring all things so their souls were free | L |
| Oh true confessors shaming them who did | M |
| Anew the wrong their Pilgrim Fathers bore | N |
| For you the Mayflower spread her sail once more | N |
| Freighted with souls to all that duty bid | M |
| Faithful as they who sought an unknown land | I |
| O'er wintry seas from Holland's Hook of Sand | I |
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| So from his lost home to the darkening main | O |
| Bodeful of storm stout Macy held his way | P |
| And when the green shore blended with the gray | P |
| His poor wife moaned 'Let us turn back again ' | - |
| 'Nay woman weak of faith kneel down ' said he | L |
| And say thy prayers the Lord himself will steer | Q |
| And led by Him nor man nor devils I fear | Q |
| So the gray Southwicks from a rainy sea | L |
| Saw far and faint the loom of land and gave | R |
| With feeble voices thanks for friendly ground | G |
| Whereon to rest their weary feet and found | G |
| A peaceful death bed and a quiet grave | R |
| Where ocean walled and wiser than his age | S |
| The lord of Shelter scorned the bigot's rage | S |
| Aquidneck's isle Nantucket's lonely shores | T |
| And Indian haunted Narragansett saw | U |
| The way worn travellers round their camp fire draw | U |
| Or heard the plashing of their weary oars | T |
| And every place whereon they rested grew | V |
| Happier for pure and gracious womanhood | W |
| And men whose names for stainless honor stood | W |
| Founders of States and rulers wise and true | V |
| The Muse of history yet shall make amends | X |
| To those who freedom peace and justice taught | Y |
| Beyond their dark age led the van of thought | Y |
| And left unforfeited the name of Friends | X |
| O mother State how foiled was thy design | Z |
| The gain was theirs the loss alone was thine | Z |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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