The Moral Warfare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHIJJKKLL MMII| WHEN Freedom on her natal day | A |
| Within her war rocked cradle lay | A |
| An iron race around her stood | B |
| Baptized her infant brow in blood | C |
| And through the storm which round her swept | D |
| Their constant ward and watching kept | D |
| Then where our quiet herds repose | E |
| The roar of baleful battle rose | E |
| And brethren of a common tongue | F |
| To mortal strife as tigers sprung | F |
| And every gift on Freedom's shrine | G |
| Was man for beast and blood for wine | G |
| Our fathers to their graves have gone | H |
| Their strife is past their triumph won | I |
| But sterner trials wait the race | J |
| Which rises in their honored place | J |
| A moral warfare with the crime | K |
| And folly of an evil time | K |
| So let it be In God's own might | L |
| We gird us for the coming fight | L |
| And strong in Him whose cause is ours | M |
| In conflict with unholy powers | M |
| We grasp the weapons He has given | I |
| The Light and Truth and Love of Heaven | I |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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