How Mary Grew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FGHHCC IIJJCC KLMMNNCC| With wisdom far beyond her years | A |
| And graver than her wondering peers | A |
| So strong so mild combining still | B |
| The tender heart and queenly will | B |
| To conscience and to duty true | C |
| So up from childhood Mary Grew | C |
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| Then in her gracious womanhood | D |
| She gave her days to doing good | D |
| She dared the scornful laugh of men | E |
| The hounding mob the slanderer's pen | E |
| She did the work she found to do | C |
| A Christian heroine Mary Grew | C |
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| The freed slave thanks her blessing comes | F |
| To her from women's weary homes | G |
| The wronged and erring find in her | H |
| Their censor mild and comforter | H |
| The world were safe if but a few | C |
| Could grow in grace as Mary Grew | C |
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| So New Year's Eve I sit and say | I |
| By this low wood fire ashen gray | I |
| Just wishing as the night shuts down | J |
| That I could hear in Boston town | J |
| In pleasant Chestnut Avenue | C |
| From her own lips how Mary Grew | C |
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| And hear her graceful hostess tell | K |
| The silver voiced oracle | L |
| Who lately through her parlors spoke | M |
| As through Dodona's sacred oak | M |
| A wiser truth than any told | N |
| By Sappho's lips of ruddy gold | N |
| The way to make the world anew | C |
| Is just to grow as Mary Grew | C |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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