The Crucifixion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAACC DEDEFFAA GCGCHHII JHFHGGAA KLMLGGCC NONOAAPQ| Sunlight upon Judha's hills | A |
| And on the waves of Galilee | B |
| On Jordan's stream and on the rills | A |
| That feed the dead and sleeping sea | A |
| Most freshly from the green wood springs | A |
| The light breeze on its scented wings | A |
| And gayly quiver in the sun | C |
| The cedar tops of Lebanon | C |
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| A few more hours a change hath come | D |
| The sky is dark without a cloud | E |
| The shouts of wrath and joy are dumb | D |
| And proud knees unto earth are bowed | E |
| A change is on the hill of Death | F |
| The helmed watchers pant for breath | F |
| And turn with wild and maniac eyes | A |
| From the dark scene of sacrifice | A |
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| That Sacrifice the death of Him | G |
| The Christ of God the holy One | C |
| Well may the conscious Heaven grow dim | G |
| And blacken the beholding Sun | C |
| The wonted light hath fled away | H |
| Night settles on the middle day | H |
| And earthquake from his caverned bed | I |
| Is waking with a thrill of dread | I |
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| The dead are waking underneath | J |
| Their prison door is rent away | H |
| And ghastly with the seal of death | F |
| They wander in the eye of day | H |
| The temple of the Cherubim | G |
| The House of God is cold and dim | G |
| A curse is on its trembling walls | A |
| Its mighty veil asunder falls | A |
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| Well may the cavern depths of Earth | K |
| Be shaken and her mountains nod | L |
| Well may the sheeted dead come forth | M |
| To see the suffering son of God | L |
| Well may the temple shrine grow dim | G |
| And shadows veil the Cherubim | G |
| When He the chosen one of Heaven | C |
| A sacrifice for guilt is given | C |
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| And shall the sinful heart alone | N |
| Behold unmoved the fearful hour | O |
| When Nature trembled on her throne | N |
| And Death resigned his iron power | O |
| Oh shall the heart whose sinfulness | A |
| Gave keenness to His sore distress | A |
| And added to His tears of blood | P |
| Refuse its trembling gratitude | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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