Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ KLKML NONNO| I LOVE the old melodious lays | A |
| Which softly melt the ages through | B |
| The songs of Spenser s golden days | A |
| Arcadian Sidney s silvery phrase | A |
| Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew | B |
| - | |
| Yet vainly in my quiet hours | C |
| To breathe their marvellous notes I try | D |
| I feel them as the leaves and flowers | C |
| In silence feel the dewy showers | C |
| And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky | D |
| - | |
| The rigor of a frozen clime | E |
| The harshness of an untaught ear | F |
| The jarring words of one whose rhyme | E |
| Beat often Labor s hurried time | E |
| Or Duty s rugged march through storm and strife are here | F |
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| Of mystic beauty dreamy grace | G |
| No rounded art the lack supplies | H |
| Unskilled the subtle lines to trace | G |
| Or softer shades of Nature s face | G |
| I view her common forms with unanointed eyes | H |
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| Nor mine the seer like power to show | I |
| The secrets of the heart and mind | J |
| To drop the plummet line below | I |
| Our common world of joy and woe | I |
| A more intense despair or brighter hope to find | J |
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| Yet here at least an earnest sense | K |
| Of human right and weal is shown | L |
| A hate of tyranny intense | K |
| And hearty in its vehemence | M |
| As if my brother s pain and sorrow were my own | L |
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| O Freedom if to me belong | N |
| Nor mighty Milton s gift divine | O |
| Nor Marvell s wit and graceful song | N |
| Still with a love as deep and strong | N |
| As theirs I lay like them my best gifts on thy shrine | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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