The Old Burying-ground Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Our vales are sweet with fern and rose	A
Our hills are maple crowned	B
But not from them our fathers chose	A
The village burying ground	B
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The dreariest spot in all the land	C
To Death they set apart	D
With scanty grace from Nature's hand	C
And none from that of Art	D
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A winding wall of mossy stone	E
Frost flung and broken lines	F
A lonesome acre thinly grown	E
With grass and wandering vines	F
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Without the wall a birch tree shows	A
Its drooped and tasselled head	G
Within a stag horned sumach grows	A
Fern leafed with spikes of red	G
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There sheep that graze the neighboring plain	H
Like white ghosts come and go	I
The farm horse drags his fetlock chain	H
The cow bell tinkles slow	I
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Low moans the river from its bed	G
The distant pines reply	J
Like mourners shrinking from the dead	G
They stand apart and sigh	J
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Unshaded smites the summer sun	K
Unchecked the winter blast	L
The school girl learns the place to shun	K
With glances backward cast	L
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For thus our fathers testified	M
That he might read who ran	N
The emptiness of human pride	M
The nothingness of man	N
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They dared not plant the grave with flowers	O
Nor dress the funeral sod	P
Where with a love as deep as ours	O
They left their dead with God	P
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The hard and thorny path they kept	Q
From beauty turned aside	M
Nor missed they over those who slept	Q
The grace to life denied	M
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Yet still the wilding flowers would blow	I
The golden leaves would fall	R
The seasons come the seasons go	I
And God be good to all	R
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Above the graves the' blackberry hung	S
In bloom and green its wreath	T
And harebells swung as if they rung	S
The chimes of peace beneath	T
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The beauty Nature loves to share	U
The gifts she hath for all	R
The common light the common air	U
O'ercrept the graveyard's wall	R
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It knew the glow of eventide	M
The sunrise and the noon	V
And glorified and sanctified	M
It slept beneath the moon	V
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With flowers or snow flakes for its sod	M
Around the seasons ran	N
And evermore the love of God	M
Rebuked the fear of man	N
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We dwell with fears on either hand	M
Within a daily strife	W
And spectral problems waiting stand	M
Before the gates of life	W
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The doubts we vainly seek to solve	X
The truths we know are one	K
The known and nameless stars revolve	X
Around the Central Sun	K
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And if we reap as we have sown	E
And take the dole we deal	Y
The law of pain is love alone	E
The wounding is to heal	Y
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Unharmed from change to change we glide	M
We fall as in our dreams	Z
The far off terror at our side	M
A smiling angel seems	Z
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Secure on God's all tender heart	M
Alike rest great and small	R
Why fear to lose our little part	M
When He is pledged for all	R
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O fearful heart and troubled brain	H
Take hope and strength from this	A2
That Nature never hints in vain	H
Nor prophesies amiss	A2
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Her wild birds sing the same sweet stave	B2
Her lights and airs are given	K
Alike to playground and the grave	B2
And over both is Heaven	K

John Greenleaf Whittier

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