Burial Of Barber Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDBEEFEEF GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNOOP QQRSSR TTQUUQ VVWMMW XX MMY ZZA2JJB2 WWC2WWC2 AAWD2D2W| BEAR him comrades to his grave | A |
| Never over one more brave | A |
| Shall the prairie grasses weep | B |
| In the ages yet to come | C |
| When the millions in our room | D |
| What we sow in tears shall reap | B |
| Bear him up the icy hill | E |
| With the Kansas frozen still | E |
| As his noble heart below | F |
| And the land he came to till | E |
| With a freeman's thews and will | E |
| And his poor hut roofed with snow | F |
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| One more look of that dead face | G |
| Of his murder's ghastly trace | G |
| One more kiss O widowed one | H |
| Lay your left hands on his brow | I |
| Lift you right hands up and vow | I |
| That his work shall yet be done | H |
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| Patience friends The eye of God | J |
| Every path by Murder trod | J |
| Watches lidless day and night | K |
| And the dead man in his shroud | L |
| And his widow weeping loud | L |
| And our hearts are in his sight | K |
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| Every deadly threat that swells | M |
| With the roar of gambling hells | M |
| Every brutal jest and jeer | N |
| Every wicked thought and plan | O |
| Of the cruel heart of man | O |
| Though but whispered He can hear | P |
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| We in suffering they in crime | Q |
| Wait the just award of time | Q |
| Wait the vengeance that is due | R |
| Not in vain a heart shall break | S |
| Not a tear for Freedom's sake | S |
| Fall unheeded God is true | R |
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| While the flag with stars bedecked | T |
| Threatens where it should protect | T |
| And the Law shakes hands with Crime | Q |
| What is left us but to wait | U |
| Match our patience to our fate | U |
| And abide the better time | Q |
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| Patience friends The human heart | V |
| Everywhere shall take our part | V |
| Everywhere for us shall pray | W |
| On our side are nature's laws | M |
| And God's life is in the cause | M |
| That we suffer for to day | W |
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| Well to suffer is divine | X |
| Pass the watchword down the line | X |
| Pass the countersign 'Endure ' | - |
| Not to him who rashly dares | M |
| But to him who nobly bears | M |
| Is the victor's garland sure | Y |
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| Frozen earth to frozen breast | Z |
| Lay our slain one down to rest | Z |
| Lay him down in hope and faith | A2 |
| And above the broken sod | J |
| Once again to Freedom's God | J |
| Pledge ourselves for life or death | B2 |
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| That the State whose walls we lay | W |
| In our blood and tears to day | W |
| Shall be free from bonds of shame | C2 |
| And our goodly land untrod | W |
| By the feet of Slavery shod | W |
| With cursing as with flame | C2 |
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| Plant the Buckeye on his grave | A |
| For the hunter of the slave | A |
| In its shadow cannot rest | W |
| And let martyr mound and tree | D2 |
| Be our pledge and guaranty | D2 |
| Of the freedom of the West | W |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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