Our Autocrat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG BHBI JKJK ALAM NONO FPFP QRQR STST| His laurels fresh from song and lay | A |
| Romance art science rich in all | B |
| And young of heart how dare we say | A |
| We keep his seventieth festival | C |
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| No sense is here of loss or lack | D |
| Before his sweetness and his light | E |
| The dial holds its shadow back | D |
| The charmed hours delay their flight | E |
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| His still the keen analysis | F |
| Of men and moods electric wit | G |
| Free play of mirth and tenderness | F |
| To heal the slightest wound from it | G |
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| And his the pathos touching all | B |
| Life's sins and sorrows and regrets | H |
| Its hopes and fears its final call | B |
| And rest beneath the violets | I |
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| His sparkling surface scarce betrays | J |
| The thoughtful tide beneath it rolled | K |
| The wisdom of the latter days | J |
| And tender memories of the old | K |
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| What shapes and fancies grave or gay | A |
| Before us at his bidding come | L |
| The Treadmill tramp the One Horse Shay | A |
| The dumb despair of Elsie's doom | M |
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| The tale of Avis and the Maid | N |
| The plea for lips that cannot speak | O |
| The holy kiss that Iris laid | N |
| On Little Boston's pallid cheek | O |
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| Long may he live to sing for us | F |
| His sweetest songs at evening time | P |
| And like his Chambered Nautilus | F |
| To holier heights of beauty climb | P |
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| Though now unnumbered guests surround | Q |
| The table that he rules at will | R |
| Its Autocrat however crowned | Q |
| Is but our friend and comrade still | R |
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| The world may keep his honored name | S |
| The wealth of all his varied powers | T |
| A stronger claim has love than fame | S |
| And he himself is only ours | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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