Chalkey Hall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDEFFE GHIIH JKLLK MNOOP QRHHR ASTTU VWTTH XYZRY TA2KKA2 B2HC2C2H GXD2D2X E2F2EYF2 G2H2OOH2 TLOOL OUI2A2U J2KOOK

How bland and sweet the greeting of this breezeA
To him who fliesB
From crowded street and red wall's weary gleamC
Till far behind him like a hideous dreamC
The close dark city liesB
Here while the market murmurs while men throngD
The marble floorE
Of Mammon's altar from the crush and dinF
Of the world's madness let me gather inF
My better thoughts once moreE
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Oh once again revive while on my earG
The cry of GainH
And low hoarse hum of Traffic die awayI
Ye blessed memories of my early dayI
Like sere grass wet with rainH
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Once more let God's green earth and sunset airJ
Old feelings wakenK
Through weary years of toil and strife and illL
Oh let me feel that my good angel stillL
Hath not his trust forsakenK
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And well do time and place befit my moodM
Beneath the armsN
Of this embracing wood a good man madeO
His home like Abraham resting in the shadeO
Of Mamre's lonely palmsP
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Here rich with autumn gifts of countless yearsQ
The virgin soilR
Turned from the share he guided and in rainH
And summer sunshine throve the fruits and grainH
Which blessed his honest toilR
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Here from his voyages on the stormy seasA
Weary and wornS
He came to meet his children and to blessT
The Giver of all good in thankfulnessT
And praise for his returnU
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And here his neighbors gathered in to greetV
Their friend againW
Safe from the wave and the destroying galesT
Which reap untimely green Bermuda's valesT
And vex the Carib mainH
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To hear the good man tell of simple truthX
Sown in an hourY
Of weakness in some far off Indian isleZ
From the parched bosom of a barren soilR
Raised up in life and powerY
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How at those gatherings in Barbadian valesT
A tendering loveA2
Came o'er him like the gentle rain from heavenK
And words of fitness to his lips were givenK
And strength as from aboveA2
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How the sad captive listened to the WordB2
Until his chainH
Grew lighter and his wounded spirit feltC2
The healing balm of consolation meltC2
Upon its life long painH
-
How the armed warrior sat him down to hearG
Of Peace and TruthX
And the proud ruler and his Creole dameD2
Jewelled and gorgeous in her beauty cameD2
And fair and bright eyed youthX
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Oh far away beneath New England's skyE2
Even when a boyF2
Following my plough by Merrimac's green shoreE
His simple record I have pondered o'erY
With deep and quiet joyF2
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And hence this scene in sunset glory warmG2
Its woods aroundH2
Its still stream winding on in light and shadeO
Its soft green meadows and its upland gladeO
To me is holy groundH2
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And dearer far than haunts where Genius keepsT
His vigils stillL
Than that where Avon's son of song is laidO
Or Vaucluse hallowed by its Petrarch's shadeO
Or Virgil's laurelled hillL
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To the gray walls of fallen ParacleteO
To Juliet's urnU
Fair Arno and Sorrento's orange groveI2
Where Tasso sang let young Romance and LoveA2
Like brother pilgrims turnU
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But here a deeper and serener charmJ2
To all is givenK
And blessed memories of the faithful deadO
O'er wood and vale and meadow stream have shedO
The holy hues of HeavenK

John Greenleaf Whittier



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