In The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNMN OPH MQAQ RSES ATUT VWXW YZAZ A2VB2V C2D2AD2| She came and stood in the Old South Church | A |
| A wonder and a sign | B |
| With a look the old time sibyls wore | C |
| Half crazed and half divine | B |
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| Save the mournful sackcloth about her wound | D |
| Unclothed as the primal mother | E |
| With limbs that trembled and eyes that blazed | F |
| With a fire she dare not smother | E |
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| Loose on her shoulders fell her hair | G |
| With sprinkled ashes gray | H |
| She stood in the broad aisle strange and weird | I |
| As a soul at the judgment day | H |
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| And the minister paused in his sermon's midst | J |
| And the people held their breath | K |
| For these were the words the maiden spoke | L |
| Through lips as the lips of death | K |
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| 'Thus saith the Lord with equal feet | M |
| All men my courts shall tread | N |
| And priest and ruler no more shall eat | M |
| My people up like bread | N |
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| 'Repent repent ere the Lord shall speak | O |
| In thunder and breaking seals | P |
| Let all souls worship Him in the way | H |
| His light within reveals ' | - |
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| She shook the dust from her naked feet | M |
| And her sackcloth closer drew | Q |
| And into the porch of the awe hushed church | A |
| She passed like a ghost from view | Q |
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| They whipped her away at the tail o' the cart | R |
| Through half the streets of the town | S |
| But the words she uttered that day nor fire | E |
| Could burn nor water drown | S |
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| And now the aisles of the ancient church | A |
| By equal feet are trod | T |
| And the bell that swings in its belfry rings | U |
| Freedom to worship God | T |
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| And now whenever a wrong is done | V |
| It thrills the conscious walls | W |
| The stone from the basement cries aloud | X |
| And the beam from the timber calls | W |
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| There are steeple houses on every hand | Y |
| And pulpits that bless and ban | Z |
| And the Lord will not grudge the single church | A |
| That is set apart for man | Z |
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| For in two commandments are all the law | A2 |
| And the prophets under the sun | V |
| And the first is last and the last is first | B2 |
| And the twain are verily one | V |
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| So long as Boston shall Boston be | C2 |
| And her bay tides rise and fall | D2 |
| Shall freedom stand in the Old South Church | A |
| And plead for the rights of all | D2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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