One Of The Signers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EEEG HGHG IJII KEKE ELEL MNMN OFOF EPEP QRSR ETET| O storied vale of Merrimac | A |
| Rejoice through all thy shade and shine | B |
| And from his century's sleep call back | A |
| A brave and honored son of thine | B |
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| Unveil his effigy between | C |
| The living and the dead to day | D |
| The fathers of the Old Thirteen | C |
| Shall witness bear as spirits may | D |
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| Unseen unheard his gray compeers | E |
| The shades of Lee and Jefferson | F |
| Wise Franklin reverend with his years | E |
| And Carroll lord of Carrollton | F |
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| Be thine henceforth a pride of place | E |
| Beyond thy namesake's over sea | E |
| Where scarce a stone is left to trace | E |
| The Holy House of Amesbury | G |
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| A prouder memory lingers round | H |
| The birthplace of thy true man here | G |
| Than that which haunts the refuge found | H |
| By Arthur's mythic Guinevere | G |
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| The plain deal table where he sat | I |
| And signed a nation's title deed | J |
| Is dearer now to fame than that | I |
| Which bore the scroll of Runnymede | I |
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| Long as on Freedom's natal morn | K |
| Shall ring the Independence bells | E |
| Give to thy dwellers yet unborn | K |
| The lesson which his image tells | E |
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| For in that hour of Destiny | E |
| Which tried the men of bravest stock | L |
| He knew the end alone must be | E |
| A free land or a traitor's block | L |
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| Among those picked and chosen men | M |
| Than his who here first drew his breath | N |
| No firmer fingers held the pen | M |
| Which wrote for liberty or death | N |
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| Not for their hearths and homes alone | O |
| But for the world their work was done | F |
| On all the winds their thought has flown | O |
| Through all the circuit of the sun | F |
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| We trace its flight by broken chains | E |
| By songs of grateful Labor still | P |
| To day in all her holy fanes | E |
| It rings the bells of freed Brazil | P |
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| O hills that watched his boyhood's home | Q |
| O earth and air that nursed him give | R |
| In this memorial semblance room | S |
| To him who shall its bronze outlive | R |
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| And thou O Land he loved rejoice | E |
| That in the countless years to come | T |
| Whenever Freedom needs a voice | E |
| These sculptured lips shall not be dumb | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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