The New Exodus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGHIJKJKLALA MNMNOBOBDPDP| BY fire and cloud across the desert sand | A |
| And through the parted waves | B |
| From their long bondage with an outstretched hand | A |
| God led the Hebrew slaves | B |
| Dead as the letter of the Pentateuch | C |
| As Egypt's statues cold | D |
| In the adytum of the sacred book | E |
| Now stands that marvel old | D |
| 'Lo God is great ' the simple Moslem says | F |
| We seek the ancient date | G |
| Turn the dry scroll and make that living phrase | H |
| A dead one 'God was great ' | I |
| And like the Coptic monks by Mousa's wells | J |
| We dream of wonders past | K |
| Vague as the tales the wandering Arab tells | J |
| Each drowsier than the last | K |
| O fools and blind Above the Pyramids | L |
| Stretches once more that hand | A |
| And tranc d Egypt from her stony lids | L |
| Flings back her veil of sand | A |
| And morning smitten Memnon singing wakes | M |
| And listening by his Nile | N |
| O'er Ammon's grave and awful visage breaks | M |
| A sweet and human smile | N |
| Not as before with hail and fire and call | O |
| Of death for midnight graves | B |
| But in the stillness of the noonday fall | O |
| The fetters of the slaves | B |
| No longer through the Red Sea as of old | D |
| The bondmen walk dry shod | P |
| Through human hearts by love of Him controlled | D |
| Runs now that path of God | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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