The Rendition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHGIAAI JKKJLMMLNOON| I HEARD the train's shrill whistle call | A |
| I saw an earnest look beseech | B |
| And rather by that look than speech | B |
| My neighbor told me all | A |
| And as I thought of Liberty | C |
| Marched handcuffed down that sworded street | D |
| The solid earth beneath my feet | D |
| Reeled fluid as the sea | C |
| I felt a sense of bitter loss | E |
| Shame tearless grief and stifling wrath | F |
| And loathing fear as if my path | F |
| A serpent stretched across | E |
| All love of home all pride of place | G |
| All generous confidence and trust | H |
| Sank smothering in that deep disgust | H |
| And anguish of disgrace | G |
| Down on my native hills of June | I |
| And home's green quiet hiding all | A |
| Fell sudden darkness like the fall | A |
| Of midnight upon noon | I |
| And Law an unloosed maniac strong | J |
| Blood drunken through the blackness trod | K |
| Hoarse shouting in the ear of God | K |
| The blasphemy of wrong | J |
| 'O Mother from thy memories proud | L |
| Thy old renown dear Commonwealth | M |
| Lend this dead air a breeze of health | M |
| And smite with stars this cloud | L |
| 'Mother of Freedom wise and brave | N |
| Rise awful in thy strength ' I said | O |
| Ah me I spake but to the dead | O |
| I stood upon her grave | N |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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