Paean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIBIB JKJKEAEALKLKEEEEBMBM HNHNAOAOJEJEEEEE| NOW joy and thanks forevermore | A |
| The dreary night has wellnigh passed | B |
| The slumbers of the North are o'er | A |
| The Giant stands erect at last | B |
| More than we hoped in that dark time | C |
| When faint with watching few and worn | D |
| We saw no welcome day star climb | C |
| The cold gray pathway of the morn | D |
| O weary hours O night of years | E |
| What storms our darkling pathway swept | F |
| Where beating back our thronging fears | E |
| By Faith alone our march we kept | F |
| How jeered the scoffing crowd behind | G |
| How mocked before the tyrant train | H |
| As one by one the true and kind | G |
| Fell fainting in our path of pain | H |
| They died their brave hearts breaking slow | I |
| But self forgetful to the last | B |
| In words of cheer and bugle blow | I |
| Their breath upon the darkness passed | B |
| A mighty host on either hand | J |
| Stood waiting for the dawn of day | K |
| To crush like reeds our feeble band | J |
| The morn has come and where are they | K |
| Troop after troop their line forsakes | E |
| With peace white banners waving free | A |
| And from our own the glad shout breaks | E |
| Of Freedom and Fraternity | A |
| Like mist before the growing light | L |
| The hostile cohorts melt away | K |
| Our frowning foemen of the night | L |
| Are brothers at the dawn of day | K |
| As unto these repentant ones | E |
| We open wide our toil worn ranks | E |
| Along our line a murmur runs | E |
| Of song and praise and grateful thanks | E |
| Sound for the onset Blast on blast | B |
| Till Slavery's minious cower and quail | M |
| One charge of fire shall drive them fast | B |
| Like chaff before our Northern gale | M |
| O prisoners in your house of pain | H |
| Dumb toiling millions bound and sold | N |
| Look stretched o'er Southern vale and plain | H |
| The Lord's delivering hand behold | N |
| Above the tyrant's pride of power | A |
| His iron gates and guarded wall | O |
| The bolts which shattered Shinar's tower | A |
| Hang smoking for a fiercer fall | O |
| Awake awake my Fatherland | J |
| It is thy Northern light that shines | E |
| This stirring march of Freedom's band | J |
| The storm song of thy mountain pines | E |
| Wake dwellers where the day expires | E |
| And hear in winds that sweep your lakes | E |
| And fan your prairies' roaring fires | E |
| The signal call that Freedom makes | E |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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