Revisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF CEGE HIJI KLMM NOPP MPGP PQMQ PGRG PPPP CPPP PPAP PPCP CPPP MPPP MPCPThe roll of drums and the bugle's wailing | A |
Vex the air of our vales no more | B |
The spear is beaten to hooks of pruning | A |
The share is the sword the soldier wore | B |
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Sing soft sing low our lowland river | C |
Under thy banks of laurel bloom | D |
Softly and sweet as the hour beseemeth | E |
Sing us the songs of peace and home | F |
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Let all the tenderer voices of nature | C |
Temper the triumph and chasten mirth | E |
Full of the infinite love and pity | G |
For fallen martyr and darkened hearth | E |
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But to Him who gives us beauty for ashes | H |
And the oil of joy for mourning long | I |
Let thy hills give thanks and all thy waters | J |
Break into jubilant waves of song | I |
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Bring us the airs of hills and forests | K |
The sweet aroma of birch and pine | L |
Give us a waft of the north wind laden | M |
With sweethrier odors and breath of kine | M |
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Bring us the purple of mountain sunsets | N |
Shadows of clouds that rake the hills | O |
The green repose of thy Plymouth meadows | P |
The gleam and ripple of Campton rills | P |
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Lead us away in shadow and sunshine | M |
Slaves of fancy through all thy miles | P |
The winding ways of Pemigewasset | G |
And Winnipesaukee's hundred isles | P |
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Shatter in sunshine over thy ledges | P |
Laugh in thy plunges from fall to fall | Q |
Play with thy fringes of elms and darken | M |
Under the shade of the mountain wall | Q |
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The cradle song of thy hillside fountains | P |
Here in thy glory and strength repeat | G |
Give us a taste of thy upland music | R |
Show us the dance of thy silver feet | G |
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Into thy dutiful life of uses | P |
Pour the music and weave the flowers | P |
With the song of birds and bloom of meadows | P |
Lighten and gladden thy heart and ours | P |
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Sing on bring down O lowland river | C |
The joy of the hills to the waiting sea | P |
The wealth of the vales the pomp of mountains | P |
The breath of the woodlands bear with thee | P |
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Here in the calm of thy seaward valley | P |
Mirth and labor shall hold their truce | P |
Dance of water and mill of grinding | A |
Both are beauty and both are use | P |
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Type of the Northland's strength and glory | P |
Pride and hope of our home and race | P |
Freedom lending to rugged labor | C |
Tints of beauty and lines of grace | P |
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Once again O beautiful river | C |
Hear our greetings and take our thanks | P |
Hither we come as Eastern pilgrims | P |
Throng to the Jordan's sacred banks | P |
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For though by the Master's feet untrodden | M |
Though never His word has stilled thy waves | P |
Well for us may thy shores be holy | P |
With Christian altars and saintly graves | P |
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And well may we own thy hint and token | M |
Of fairer valleys and streams than these | P |
Where the rivers of God are full of water | C |
And full of sap are His healing trees | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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