Dedication - Songs Of Labor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFEEFGHGGHIFIJF KLKKLMNMMNOEOOEDPDDP QJQRS| I WOULD the gift I offer here | A |
| Might graces from thy favor take | B |
| And seen through Friendship's atmosphere | C |
| On softened lines and coloring wear | D |
| The unaccustomed light of beauty for thy sake | B |
| Few leaves of Fancy's spring remain | E |
| But what I have I give to thee | F |
| The o'er sunned bloom of summer's plain | E |
| And paler flowers the latter rain | E |
| Calls from the westering slope of life's autumnal lea | F |
| Above the fallen groves of green | G |
| Where youth's enchanted forest stood | H |
| Dry root and moss d trunk between | G |
| A sober after growth is seen | G |
| As springs the pine where falls the gay leafed maple wood | H |
| Yet birds will sing and breezes play | I |
| Their leaf harps in the sombre tree | F |
| And through the bleak and wintry day | I |
| It keeps its steady green alway | J |
| So even my after thoughts may have a charm for thee | F |
| Art's perfect forms no moral need | K |
| And beauty is its own excuse | L |
| But for the dull and flowerless weed | K |
| Some healing virtue still must plead | K |
| And the rough ore must find its honors in its use | L |
| So haply these my simple lays | M |
| Of homely toil may serve to show | N |
| The orchard bloom and tasselled maize | M |
| That skirt and gladden duty's ways | M |
| The unsung beauty hid life's common things below | N |
| Haply from them the toiler bent | O |
| Above his forge or plough may gain | E |
| A manlier spirit of content | O |
| And feel that life is wisest spent | O |
| Where the strong working hand makes strong the working brain | E |
| The doom which to the guilty pair | D |
| Without the walls of Eden came | P |
| Transforming sinless ease to care | D |
| And rugged toil no more shall bear | D |
| The burden of old crime or mark of primal shame | P |
| A blessing now a curse no more | Q |
| Since He whose name we breathe with awe | J |
| The coarse mechanic vesture wore | Q |
| A poor man toiling with the poor | R |
| In labor as in prayer fulfilling the same law | S |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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