The Hive At Gettysburg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJKC HLHLMNMNOPOP| In the old Hebrew myth the lion's frame | A |
| So terrible alive | B |
| Bleached by the desert's sun and wind became | A |
| The wandering wild bees' hive | B |
| And he who lone and naked handed tore | C |
| Those jaws of death apart | D |
| In after time drew forth their honeyed store | C |
| To strengthen his strong heart | D |
| Dead seemed the legend but it only slept | E |
| To wake beneath our sky | F |
| Just on the spot whence ravening Treason crept | E |
| Back to its lair to die | F |
| Bleeding and torn from Freedom's mountain bounds | G |
| A stained and shattered drum | H |
| Is now the hive where on their flowery rounds | G |
| The wild bees go and come | H |
| Unchallenged by a ghostly sentinel | I |
| They wander wide and far | J |
| Along green hillsides sown with shot and shell | K |
| Through vales once choked with war | C |
| The low reveille of their battle drum | H |
| Disturbs no morning prayer | L |
| With deeper peace in summer noons their hum | H |
| Fills all the drowsy air | L |
| And Samson's riddle is our own to day | M |
| Of sweetness from the strong | N |
| Of union peace and freedom plucked away | M |
| From the rent jaws of wrong | N |
| From Treason's death we draw a purer life | O |
| As from the beast he slew | P |
| A sweetness sweeter for his bitter strife | O |
| The old time athlete drew | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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