The Peace Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHBHBIGIG JKJKFLFLMNMIOPOPQRQR STUTVWVW| THANK God for rest where none molest | A |
| And none can make afraid | B |
| For Peace that sits as Plenty's guest | A |
| Beneath the homestead shade | B |
| Bring pike and gun the sword's red scourge | C |
| The negro's broken chains | D |
| And beat them at the blacksmith's forge | E |
| To ploughshares for our plains | D |
| Alike henceforth our hills of snow | F |
| And vales where cotton flowers | G |
| All streams that flow all winds that blow | F |
| Are Freedom's motive powers | G |
| Henceforth to Labor's chivalry | H |
| Be knightly honors paid | B |
| For nobler than the sword's shall be | H |
| The sickle's accolade | B |
| Build up an altar to the Lord | I |
| O grateful hearts of ours | G |
| And shape it of the greenest sward | I |
| That ever drank the showers | G |
| Lay all the bloom of gardens there | J |
| And there the orchard fruits | K |
| Bring golden grain from sun and air | J |
| From earth her goodly roots | K |
| There let our banners droop and flow | F |
| The stars uprise and fall | L |
| Our roll of martyrs sad and slow | F |
| Let sighing breezes call | L |
| Their names let hands of horn and tan | M |
| And rough shod feet applaud | N |
| Who died to make the slave a man | M |
| And link with toil reward | I |
| There let the common heart keep time | O |
| To such an anthem sung | P |
| As never swelled on poet's rhyme | O |
| Or thrilled on singer's tongue | P |
| Song of our burden and relief | Q |
| Of peace and long annoy | R |
| The passion of our mighty grief | Q |
| And our exceeding joy | R |
| A song of praise to Him who filled | S |
| The harvests sown in years | T |
| And gave each field a double yield | U |
| To feed our battle years | T |
| A song of faith that trusts the end | V |
| To match the good begun | W |
| Nor doubts the power of Love to blend | V |
| The hearts of men as one | W |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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