The Mayflowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBC DED FGF HIHI JKJK BBBB CBCB LMLM| Sad Mayflower watched by winter stars | A |
| And nursed by winter gales | B |
| With petals of the sleeted spars | B |
| And leaves of frozen sails | B |
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| What had she in those dreary hours | B |
| Within her ice rimmed bay | C |
| In common with the wild wood flowers | B |
| The first sweet smiles of May | C |
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| Yet 'God be praised ' the Pilgrim said | D |
| Who saw the blossoms peer | E |
| Above the brown leaves dry and dead | D |
| 'Behold our Mayflower here ' | - |
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| 'God wills it here our rest shall be | F |
| Our years of wandering o'er | G |
| For us the Mayflower of the sea | F |
| Shall spread her sails no more ' | - |
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| O sacred flowers of faith and hope | H |
| As sweetly now as then | I |
| Ye bloom on many a birchen slope | H |
| In many a pine dark glen | I |
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| Behind the sea wall's rugged length | J |
| Unchanged your leaves unfold | K |
| Like love behind the manly strength | J |
| Of the brave hearts of old | K |
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| So live the fathers in their sons | B |
| Their sturdy faith be ours | B |
| And ours the love that overruns | B |
| Its rocky strength with flowers | B |
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| The Pilgrim's wild and wintry day | C |
| Its shadow round us draws | B |
| The Mayflower of his stormy bay | C |
| Our Freedom's struggling cause | B |
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| But warmer suns erelong shall bring | L |
| To life the frozen sod | M |
| And through dead leaves of hope shall spring | L |
| Afresh the flowers of God | M |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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