The Bartholdi Statue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBF GHIH JBJ HFHF| The land that from the rule of kings | A |
| In freeing us itself made free | B |
| Our Old World Sister to us brings | A |
| Her sculptured Dream of Liberty | B |
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| Unlike the shapes on Egypt's sands | C |
| Uplifted by the toil worn slave | D |
| On Freedom's soil with freemen's hands | C |
| We rear the symbol free hands gave | D |
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| O France the beautiful to thee | B |
| Once more a debt of love we owe | E |
| In peace beneath thy Colors Three | B |
| We hail a later Rochambeau | F |
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| Rise stately Symbol holding forth | G |
| Thy light and hope to all who sit | H |
| In chains and darkness Belt the earth | I |
| With watch fires from thy torch uplit | H |
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| Reveal the primal mandate still | J |
| Which Chaos heard and ceased to be | B |
| Trace on mid air th' Eternal Will | J |
| In signs of fire 'Let man be free ' | - |
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| Shine far shine free a guiding light | H |
| To Reason's ways and Virtue's aim | F |
| A lightning flash the wretch to smite | H |
| Who shields his license with thy name | F |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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