Garrison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDADAEFEFGHGH IJKJLMLMGAGANGNGGOGO| THE storm and peril overpast | A |
| The hounding hatred shamed and still | B |
| Go soul of freedom take at last | A |
| The place which thou alone canst fill | B |
| Confirm the lesson taught of old | A |
| Life saved for self is lost while they | C |
| Who lose it in His service hold | A |
| The lease of God's eternal day | C |
| Not for thyself but for the slave | D |
| Thy words of thunder shook the world | A |
| No selfish griefs or hatred gave | D |
| The strength wherewith thy bolts were hurled | A |
| From lips that Sinai's trumpet blew | E |
| We heard a tender under song | F |
| Thy very wrath from pity grew | E |
| From love of man thy hate of wrong | F |
| Now past and present are as one | G |
| The life below is life above | H |
| Thy mortal years have but begun | G |
| Thy immortality of love | H |
| With somewhat of thy lofty faith | I |
| We lay thy outworn garment by | J |
| Give death but what belongs to death | K |
| And life the life that cannot die | J |
| Not for a soul like thine the calm | L |
| Of selfish ease and joys of sense | M |
| But duty more than crown or palm | L |
| Its own exceeding recompense | M |
| Go up and on thy day well done | G |
| Its morning promise well fulfilled | A |
| Arise to triumphs yet unwon | G |
| To holier tasks that God has willed | A |
| Go leave behind thee all that mars | N |
| The work below of man for man | G |
| With the white legions of the stars | N |
| Do service such as angels can | G |
| Wherever wrong shall right deny | G |
| Or suffering spirits urge their plea | O |
| Be thine a voice to smite the lie | G |
| A hand to set the captive free | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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