The Library Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE DDFF GGHH DDII DDJJ KKLL MMNN| 'Let there be light ' God spake of old | A |
| And over chaos dark and cold | A |
| And through the dead and formless frame | B |
| Of nature life and order came | B |
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| Faint was the light at first that shone | C |
| On giant fern and mastodon | D |
| On half formed plant and beast of prey | E |
| And man as rude and wild as they | E |
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| Age after age like waves o'erran | D |
| The earth uplifting brute and man | D |
| And mind at length in symbols dark | F |
| Its meanings traced on stone and bark | F |
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| On leaf of palm on sedge wrought roll | G |
| On plastic clay and leathern scroll | G |
| Man wrote his thoughts the ages passed | H |
| And to the Press was found at last | H |
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| Then dead souls woke the thoughts of men | D |
| Whose bones were dust revived again | D |
| The cloister's silence found a tongue | I |
| Old prophets spake old poets sung | I |
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| And here to day the dead look down | D |
| The kings of mind again we crown | D |
| We hear the voices lost so long | J |
| The sage's word the sibyl's song | J |
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| Here Greek and Roman find themselves | K |
| Alive along these crowded shelves | K |
| And Shakespeare treads again his stage | L |
| And Chaucer paints anew his age | L |
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| As if some Pantheon's marbles broke | M |
| Their stony trance and lived and spoke | M |
| Life thrills along the alcoved hall | N |
| The lords of thought await our call | N |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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