I Was A Stranger, And Ye Took Me In Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NFNF OPO| 'Neath skies that winter never knew | A |
| The air was full of light and balm | B |
| And warm and soft the Gulf wind blew | A |
| Through orange bloom and groves of palm | B |
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| A stranger from the frozen North | C |
| Who sought the fount of health in vain | D |
| Sank homeless on the alien earth | E |
| And breathed the languid air with pain | D |
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| God's angel came The tender shade | F |
| Of pity made her blue eye dim | G |
| Against her woman's breast she laid | F |
| The drooping fainting head of him | G |
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| She bore him to a pleasant room | H |
| Flower sweet and cool with salt sea air | I |
| And watched beside his bed for whom | H |
| His far off sisters might not care | I |
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| She fanned his feverish brow and smoothed | J |
| Its lines of pain with tenderest touch | K |
| With holy hymn and prayer she soothed | J |
| The trembling soul that feared so much | K |
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| Through her the peace that passeth sight | L |
| Came to him as he lapsed away | M |
| As one whose troubled dreams of night | L |
| Slide slowly into tranquil day | M |
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| The sweetness of the Land of Flowers | N |
| Upon his lonely grave she laid | F |
| The jasmine dropped its golden showers | N |
| The orange lent its bloom and shade | F |
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| And something whispered in her thought | O |
| More sweet than mortal voices be | P |
| 'The service thou for him hast wrought | O |
| O daughter hath been done for me ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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