Revisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF CEGE HIJI KLMM NOPP MPGP PQMQ PGRG PPPP CPPP PPAP PPCP CPPP MPPP MPCP

The roll of drums and the bugle's wailingA
Vex the air of our vales no moreB
The spear is beaten to hooks of pruningA
The share is the sword the soldier woreB
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Sing soft sing low our lowland riverC
Under thy banks of laurel bloomD
Softly and sweet as the hour beseemethE
Sing us the songs of peace and homeF
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Let all the tenderer voices of natureC
Temper the triumph and chasten mirthE
Full of the infinite love and pityG
For fallen martyr and darkened hearthE
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But to Him who gives us beauty for ashesH
And the oil of joy for mourning longI
Let thy hills give thanks and all thy watersJ
Break into jubilant waves of songI
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Bring us the airs of hills and forestsK
The sweet aroma of birch and pineL
Give us a waft of the north wind ladenM
With sweethrier odors and breath of kineM
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Bring us the purple of mountain sunsetsN
Shadows of clouds that rake the hillsO
The green repose of thy Plymouth meadowsP
The gleam and ripple of Campton rillsP
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Lead us away in shadow and sunshineM
Slaves of fancy through all thy milesP
The winding ways of PemigewassetG
And Winnipesaukee's hundred islesP
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Shatter in sunshine over thy ledgesP
Laugh in thy plunges from fall to fallQ
Play with thy fringes of elms and darkenM
Under the shade of the mountain wallQ
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The cradle song of thy hillside fountainsP
Here in thy glory and strength repeatG
Give us a taste of thy upland musicR
Show us the dance of thy silver feetG
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Into thy dutiful life of usesP
Pour the music and weave the flowersP
With the song of birds and bloom of meadowsP
Lighten and gladden thy heart and oursP
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Sing on bring down O lowland riverC
The joy of the hills to the waiting seaP
The wealth of the vales the pomp of mountainsP
The breath of the woodlands bear with theeP
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Here in the calm of thy seaward valleyP
Mirth and labor shall hold their truceP
Dance of water and mill of grindingA
Both are beauty and both are useP
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Type of the Northland's strength and gloryP
Pride and hope of our home and raceP
Freedom lending to rugged laborC
Tints of beauty and lines of graceP
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Once again O beautiful riverC
Hear our greetings and take our thanksP
Hither we come as Eastern pilgrimsP
Throng to the Jordan's sacred banksP
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For though by the Master's feet untroddenM
Though never His word has stilled thy wavesP
Well for us may thy shores be holyP
With Christian altars and saintly gravesP
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And well may we own thy hint and tokenM
Of fairer valleys and streams than theseP
Where the rivers of God are full of waterC
And full of sap are His healing treesP

John Greenleaf Whittier



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