Chalkey Hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEFFE GHIIH JKLLK MNOOP QRHHR ASTTU VWTTH XYZRY TA2KKA2 B2HC2C2H GXD2D2X E2F2EYF2 G2H2OOH2 TLOOL OUI2A2U J2KOOKHow bland and sweet the greeting of this breeze | A |
To him who flies | B |
From crowded street and red wall's weary gleam | C |
Till far behind him like a hideous dream | C |
The close dark city lies | B |
Here while the market murmurs while men throng | D |
The marble floor | E |
Of Mammon's altar from the crush and din | F |
Of the world's madness let me gather in | F |
My better thoughts once more | E |
- | |
Oh once again revive while on my ear | G |
The cry of Gain | H |
And low hoarse hum of Traffic die away | I |
Ye blessed memories of my early day | I |
Like sere grass wet with rain | H |
- | |
Once more let God's green earth and sunset air | J |
Old feelings waken | K |
Through weary years of toil and strife and ill | L |
Oh let me feel that my good angel still | L |
Hath not his trust forsaken | K |
- | |
And well do time and place befit my mood | M |
Beneath the arms | N |
Of this embracing wood a good man made | O |
His home like Abraham resting in the shade | O |
Of Mamre's lonely palms | P |
- | |
Here rich with autumn gifts of countless years | Q |
The virgin soil | R |
Turned from the share he guided and in rain | H |
And summer sunshine throve the fruits and grain | H |
Which blessed his honest toil | R |
- | |
Here from his voyages on the stormy seas | A |
Weary and worn | S |
He came to meet his children and to bless | T |
The Giver of all good in thankfulness | T |
And praise for his return | U |
- | |
And here his neighbors gathered in to greet | V |
Their friend again | W |
Safe from the wave and the destroying gales | T |
Which reap untimely green Bermuda's vales | T |
And vex the Carib main | H |
- | |
To hear the good man tell of simple truth | X |
Sown in an hour | Y |
Of weakness in some far off Indian isle | Z |
From the parched bosom of a barren soil | R |
Raised up in life and power | Y |
- | |
How at those gatherings in Barbadian vales | T |
A tendering love | A2 |
Came o'er him like the gentle rain from heaven | K |
And words of fitness to his lips were given | K |
And strength as from above | A2 |
- | |
How the sad captive listened to the Word | B2 |
Until his chain | H |
Grew lighter and his wounded spirit felt | C2 |
The healing balm of consolation melt | C2 |
Upon its life long pain | H |
- | |
How the armed warrior sat him down to hear | G |
Of Peace and Truth | X |
And the proud ruler and his Creole dame | D2 |
Jewelled and gorgeous in her beauty came | D2 |
And fair and bright eyed youth | X |
- | |
Oh far away beneath New England's sky | E2 |
Even when a boy | F2 |
Following my plough by Merrimac's green shore | E |
His simple record I have pondered o'er | Y |
With deep and quiet joy | F2 |
- | |
And hence this scene in sunset glory warm | G2 |
Its woods around | H2 |
Its still stream winding on in light and shade | O |
Its soft green meadows and its upland glade | O |
To me is holy ground | H2 |
- | |
And dearer far than haunts where Genius keeps | T |
His vigils still | L |
Than that where Avon's son of song is laid | O |
Or Vaucluse hallowed by its Petrarch's shade | O |
Or Virgil's laurelled hill | L |
- | |
To the gray walls of fallen Paraclete | O |
To Juliet's urn | U |
Fair Arno and Sorrento's orange grove | I2 |
Where Tasso sang let young Romance and Love | A2 |
Like brother pilgrims turn | U |
- | |
But here a deeper and serener charm | J2 |
To all is given | K |
And blessed memories of the faithful dead | O |
O'er wood and vale and meadow stream have shed | O |
The holy hues of Heaven | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Chalkey Hall poem by John Greenleaf Whittier
Best Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier