Extract From Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCBCBDDAAEFFEGHI IJJBBJJJJKKFFLLMMJJN NOOJJJJEJEJLLPQFRRFQ BRRBJJSSBJJQQ| How has New England's romance fled | A |
| Even as a vision of the morning | B |
| Its rites foredone its guardians dead | A |
| Its priestesses bereft of dread | A |
| Waking the veriest urchin's scorning | B |
| Gone like the Indian wizard's yell | C |
| And fire dance round the magic rock | B |
| Forgotten like the Druid's spell | C |
| At moonrise by his holy oak | B |
| No more along the shadowy glen | D |
| Glide the dim ghosts of murdered men | D |
| No more the unquiet churchyard dead | A |
| Glimpse upward from their turfy bed | A |
| Startling the traveller late and lone | E |
| As on some night of starless weather | F |
| They silently commune together | F |
| Each sitting on his own head stone | E |
| The roofless house decayed deserted | G |
| Its living tenants all departed | H |
| No longer rings with midnight revel | I |
| Of witch or ghost or goblin evil | I |
| No pale blue flame sends out its flashes | J |
| Through creviced roof and shattered sashes | J |
| The witch grass round the hazel spring | B |
| May sharply to the night air sing | B |
| But there no more shall withered hags | J |
| Refresh at ease their broomstick nags | J |
| Or taste those hazel shadowed waters | J |
| As beverage meet for Satan's daughters | J |
| No more their mimic tones be heard | K |
| The mew of cat the chirp of bird | K |
| Shrill blending with the hoarser laughter | F |
| Of the fell demon following after | F |
| The cautious goodman nails no more | L |
| A horseshoe on his outer door | L |
| Lest some unseemly hag should fit | M |
| To his own mouth her bridle bit | M |
| The goodwife's churn no more refuses | J |
| Its wonted culinary uses | J |
| Until with heated needle burned | N |
| The witch has to her place returned | N |
| Our witches are no longer old | O |
| And wrinkled beldames Satan sold | O |
| But young and gay and laughing creatures | J |
| With the heart's sunshine on their features | J |
| Their sorcery the light which dances | J |
| Where the raised lid unveils its glances | J |
| Or that low breathed and gentle tone | E |
| The music of Love's twilight hours | J |
| Soft dream like as a fairy's moan | E |
| Above her nightly closing flowers | J |
| Sweeter than that which sighed of yore | L |
| Along the charmed Ausonian shore | L |
| Even she our own weird heroine | P |
| Sole Pythoness of ancient Lynn ' | Q |
| Sleeps calmly where the living laid her | F |
| And the wide realm of sorcery | R |
| Left by its latest mistress free | R |
| Hath found no gray and skilled invader | F |
| So perished Albion's 'glammarye ' | Q |
| With him in Melrose Abbey sleeping | B |
| His charmed torch beside his knee | R |
| That even the dead himself might see | R |
| The magic scroll within his keeping | B |
| And now our modern Yankee sees | J |
| Nor omens spells nor mysteries | J |
| And naught above below around | S |
| Of life or death of sight or sound | S |
| Whate'er its nature form or look | B |
| Excites his terror or surprise | J |
| All seeming to his knowing eyes | J |
| Familiar as his 'catechise ' | Q |
| Or 'Webster's Spelling Book ' | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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