Samuel J. Tilden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KEKE| GREYSTONE AUG | A |
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| Once more O all adjusting Death | B |
| The nation's Pantheon opens wide | C |
| Once more a common sorrow saith | B |
| A strong wise man has died | C |
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| Faults doubtless had he Had we not | D |
| Our own to question and asperse | E |
| The worth we doubted or forgot | D |
| Until beside his hearse | E |
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| Ambitious cautious yet the man | F |
| To strike down fraud with resolute hand | G |
| A patriot if a partisan | H |
| He loved his native land | G |
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| So let the mourning bells be rung | I |
| The banner droop its folds half way | J |
| And while the public pen and tongue | I |
| Their fitting tribute pay | J |
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| Shall we not vow above his bier | K |
| To set our feet on party lies | E |
| And wound no more a living ear | K |
| With words that Death denies | E |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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