The Quaker Of The Olden Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHHIHI HFHFJBJBKLKL| THE Quaker of the olden time | A |
| How calm and firm and true | B |
| Unspotted by its wrong and crime | A |
| He walked the dark earth through | B |
| The lust of power the love of gain | C |
| The thousand lures of sin | D |
| Around him had no power to stain | C |
| The purity within | D |
| With that deep insight which detects | E |
| All great things in the small | F |
| And knows how each man's life affects | E |
| The spiritual life of all | F |
| He walked by faith and not by sight | G |
| By love and not by law | H |
| The presence of the wrong or right | G |
| He rather felt than saw | H |
| He felt that wrong with wrong partakes | H |
| That nothing stands alone | I |
| That whoso gives the motive makes | H |
| His brother's sin his own | I |
| And pausing not for doubtful choice | H |
| Of evils great or small | F |
| He listened to that inward voice | H |
| Which called away from all | F |
| O Spirit of that early day | J |
| So pure and strong and true | B |
| Be with us in the narrow way | J |
| Our faithful fathers knew | B |
| Give strength the evil to forsake | K |
| The cross of Truth to bear | L |
| And love and reverent fear to make | K |
| Our daily lives a prayer | L |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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