The Cable Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAHA IJII KLK MNMN OPOP EQEK RIRI ASAS TUT III VWVXXV| O lonely bay of Trinity | A |
| O dreary shores give ear | B |
| Lean down unto the white lipped sea | A |
| The voice of God to hear | B |
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| From world to world His couriers fly | C |
| Thought winged and shod with fire | D |
| The angel of His stormy sky | C |
| Rides down the sunken wire | D |
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| What saith the herald of the Lord | E |
| 'The world's long strife is done | F |
| Close wedded by that mystic cord | E |
| Its continents are one | F |
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| 'And one in heart as one in blood | G |
| Shall all her peoples be | A |
| The hands of human brotherhood | H |
| Are clasped beneath the sea | A |
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| 'Through Orient seas o'er Afric's plain | I |
| And Asian mountains borne | J |
| The vigor of the Northern brain | I |
| Shall nerve the world outworn | I |
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| 'From clime to clime from shore to shore | K |
| Shall thrill the magic thread | L |
| The new Prometheus steals once more | K |
| The fire that wakes the dead ' | - |
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| Throb on strong pulse of thunder beat | M |
| From answering beach to beach | N |
| Fuse nations in thy kindly heat | M |
| And melt the chains of each | N |
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| Wild terror of the sky above | O |
| Glide tamed and dumb below | P |
| Bear gently Ocean's carrier dove | O |
| Thy errands to and fro | P |
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| Weave on swift shuttle of the Lord | E |
| Beneath the deep so far | Q |
| The bridal robe of earth's accord | E |
| The funeral shroud of war | K |
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| For lo the fall of Ocean's wall | R |
| Space mocked and time outrun | I |
| And round the world the thought of all | R |
| Is as the thought of one | I |
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| The poles unite the zones agree | A |
| The tongues of striving cease | S |
| As on the Sea of Galilee | A |
| The Christ is whispering Peace | S |
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| 'Glad prophecy to this at last ' | - |
| The Reader said 'shall all things come | T |
| Forgotten be the bugle's blast | U |
| And battle music of the drum | T |
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| 'A little while the world may run | I |
| Its old mad way with needle gun | I |
| And iron clad but truth at last shall reign | I |
| The cradle song of Christ was never sung in vain ' | - |
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| Shifting his scattered papers 'Here ' | - |
| He said as died the faint applause | V |
| 'Is something that I found last year | W |
| Down on the island known as Orr's | V |
| I had it from a fair haired girl | X |
| Who oddly bore the name of Pearl | X |
| As if by some droll freak of circumstance | V |
| Classic or wellnigh so in Harriet Stowe's romance ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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