The Lost Statesman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADAEEFFDGGHIHIJC KLLMMLK| AS they who tossing midst the storm at night | A |
| While turning shoreward where a beacon shone | B |
| Meet the walled blackness of the heaven alone | B |
| So on the turbulent waves of party tossed | C |
| In gloom and tempest men have seen thy light | A |
| Quenched in the darkness At thy hour of noon | D |
| While life was pleasant to thy undimmed sight | A |
| And day by day within thy spirit grew | E |
| A holier hope than young Ambition knew | E |
| As through thy rural quiet not in vain | F |
| Pierced the sharp thrill of Freedom's cry of pain | F |
| Man of the millions thou art lost too soon | D |
| Portents at which the bravest stand aghast | G |
| The birth throes of a Future strange and vast | G |
| Alarm the land yet thou so wise and strong | H |
| Suddenly summoned to the burial bed | I |
| Lapped in its slumbers deep and ever long | H |
| Hear'st not the tumult surging overhead | I |
| Who now shall rally Freedom's scattering host | J |
| Who wear the mantle of the leader lost | C |
| Who stay the march of slavery He whose voice | K |
| Hath called thee from thy task field shall not lack | L |
| Yet bolder champions to beat bravely back | L |
| The wrong which through his poor ones reaches Him | M |
| Yet firmer hands shall Freedom's torchlights trim | M |
| And wave them high across the abysmal black | L |
| Till bound dumb millions there shall see them and rejoice | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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