The Emancipation Group Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBCDEDEFGFGAHAH IJIJKLKL| AMIDST thy sacred effigies | A |
| Of old renown give place | A |
| O city Freedom loved to his | A |
| Whose hand unchained a race | A |
| Take the worn frame that rested not | B |
| Save in a martyr's grave | C |
| The care lined face that none forgot | B |
| Bent to the kneeling slave | C |
| Let man be free The mighty word | D |
| He spake was not his own | E |
| An impulse from the Highest stirred | D |
| These chiselled lips alone | E |
| The cloudy sign the fiery guide | F |
| Along his pathway ran | G |
| And Nature through his voice denied | F |
| The ownership of man | G |
| We rest in peace where these sad eyes | A |
| Saw peril strife and pain | H |
| His was the nation's sacrifice | A |
| And ours the priceless gain | H |
| O symbol of God's will on earth | I |
| As it is done above | J |
| Bear witness to the cost and worth | I |
| Of justice and of love | J |
| Stand in thy place and testify | K |
| To coming ages long | L |
| That truth is stronger than a lie | K |
| And righteousness than wrong | L |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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