Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott - (luther's Hymn) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEF GHIHJKLLM NBNBOPQQR SBSBPOTTU VHVHWWBBC XBXBYYZZM A2HB2HC2C2VVB HC2HC2D2D2E2E2C UHUHC2C2F2F2C| We wait beneath the furnace blast | A |
| The pangs of transformation | B |
| Not painlessly doth God recast | A |
| And mould anew the nation | B |
| Hot burns the fire | C |
| Where wrongs expire | D |
| Nor spares the hand | E |
| That from the land | E |
| Uproots the ancient evil | F |
| - | |
| The hand breadth cloud the sages feared | G |
| Its bloody rain is dropping | H |
| The poison plant the fathers spared | I |
| All else is overtopping | H |
| East West South North | J |
| It curses the earth | K |
| All justice dies | L |
| And fraud and lies | L |
| Live only in its shadow | M |
| - | |
| What gives the wheat field blades of steel | N |
| What points the rebel cannon | B |
| What sets the roaring rabble's heel | N |
| On the old star spangled pennon | B |
| What breaks the oath | O |
| Of the men o' the South | P |
| What whets the knife | Q |
| For the Union's life | Q |
| Hark to the answer Slavery | R |
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| Then waste no blows on lesser foes | S |
| In strife unworthy freemen | B |
| God lifts to day the veil and shows | S |
| The features of the demon | B |
| O North and South | P |
| Its victims both | O |
| Can ye not cry | T |
| Let slavery die | T |
| And union find in freedom | U |
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| What though the cast out spirit tear | V |
| The nation in his going | H |
| We who have shared the guilt must share | V |
| The pang of his o'erthrowing | H |
| Whate'er the loss | W |
| Whate'er the cross | W |
| Shall they complain | B |
| Of present pain | B |
| Who trust in God's hereafter | C |
| - | |
| For who that leans on His right arm | X |
| Was ever yet forsaken | B |
| What righteous cause can suffer harm | X |
| If He its part has taken | B |
| Though wild and loud | Y |
| And dark the cloud | Y |
| Behind its folds | Z |
| His hand upholds | Z |
| The calm sky of to morrow | M |
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| Above the maddening cry for blood | A2 |
| Above the wild war drumming | H |
| Let Freedom's voice be heard with good | B2 |
| The evil overcoming | H |
| Give prayer and purse | C2 |
| To stay the Curse | C2 |
| Whose wrong we share | V |
| Whose shame we bear | V |
| Whose end shall gladden Heaven | B |
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| In vain the bells of war shall ring | H |
| Of triumphs and revenges | C2 |
| While still is spared the evil thing | H |
| That severs and estranges | C2 |
| But blest the ear | D2 |
| That yet shall hear | D2 |
| The jubilant bell | E2 |
| That rings the knell | E2 |
| Of Slavery forever | C |
| - | |
| Then let the selfish lip be dumb | U |
| And hushed the breath of sighing | H |
| Before the joy of peace must come | U |
| The pains of purifying | H |
| God give us grace | C2 |
| Each in his place | C2 |
| To bear his lot | F2 |
| And murmuring not | F2 |
| Endure and wait and labor | C |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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