George L. Stearns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBDB CECE BCBC DFDF GHIH JFJF JJJJ KJKJ FLF| He has done the work of a true man | A |
| Crown him honor him love him | B |
| Weep over him tears of woman | C |
| Stoop manliest brows above him | B |
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| O dusky mothers and daughters | D |
| Vigils of mourning keep for him | B |
| Up in the mountains and down by the waters | D |
| Lift up your voices and weep for him | B |
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| For the warmest of hearts is frozen | C |
| The freest of hands is still | E |
| And the gap in our picked and chosen | C |
| The long years may not fill | E |
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| No duty could overtask him | B |
| No need his will outrun | C |
| Or ever our lips could ask him | B |
| His hands the work had done | C |
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| He forgot his own soul for others | D |
| Himself to his neighbor lending | F |
| He found the Lord in his suffering brothers | D |
| And not in the clouds descending | F |
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| So the bed was sweet to die on | G |
| Whence he saw the doors wide swung | H |
| Against whose bolted iron | I |
| The strength of his life was flung | H |
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| And he saw ere his eye was darkened | J |
| The sheaves of the harvest bringing | F |
| And knew while his ear yet hearkened | J |
| The voice of the reapers singing | F |
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| Ah well The world is discreet | J |
| There are plenty to pause and wait | J |
| But here was a man who set his feet | J |
| Sometimes in advance of fate | J |
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| Plucked off the old bark when the inner | K |
| Was slow to renew it | J |
| And put to the Lord's work the sinner | K |
| When saints failed to do it | J |
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| Never rode to the wrong's redressing | F |
| A worthier paladin | L |
| Shall he not hear the blessing | F |
| 'Good and faithful enter in ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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