Ichabod Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OKOK PQPQ| So fallen so lost the light withdrawn | A |
| Which once he wore | B |
| The glory from his gray hairs gone | A |
| Forevermore | B |
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| Revile him not the Tempter hath | C |
| A snare for all | D |
| And pitying tears not scorn and wrath | C |
| Befit his fall | D |
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| Oh dumb be passion's stormy rage | E |
| When he who might | F |
| Have lighted up and led his age | E |
| Falls back in night | F |
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| Scorn would the angels laugh to mark | G |
| A bright soul driven | H |
| Fiend goaded down the endless dark | G |
| From hope and heaven | H |
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| Let not the land once proud of him | I |
| Insult him now | J |
| Nor brand with deeper shame his dim | I |
| Dishonored brow | J |
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| But let its humbled sons instead | K |
| From sea to lake | L |
| A long lament as for the dead | K |
| In sadness make | L |
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| Of all we loved and honored naught | M |
| Save power remains | N |
| A fallen angel's pride of thought | M |
| Still strong in chains | N |
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| All else is gone from those great eyes | O |
| The soul has fled | K |
| When faith is lost when honor dies | O |
| The man is dead | K |
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| Then pay the reverence of old days | P |
| To his dead fame | Q |
| Walk backward with averted gaze | P |
| And hide the shame | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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