Theirs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFCGGFHHIJ AKLMMFFNNOOPPQQ| I | A |
| Fate summoned in gray bearded age to act | B |
| A history stranger than his written fact | B |
| Him who portrayed the splendor and the gloom | C |
| Of that great hour when throne and altar fell | D |
| With long death groan which still is audible | E |
| He when around the walls of Paris rung | F |
| The Prussian bugle like the blast of doom | C |
| And every ill which follows unblest war | G |
| Maddened all France from Finistere to Var | G |
| The weight of fourscore from his shoulders flung | F |
| And guided Freedom in the path he saw | H |
| Lead out of chaos into light and law | H |
| Peace not imperial but republican | I |
| And order pledged to all the Rights of Man | J |
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| II | A |
| Death called him from a need as imminent | K |
| As that from which the Silent William went | L |
| When powers of evil like the smiting seas | M |
| On Holland's dikes assailed her liberties | M |
| Sadly while yet in doubtful balance hung | F |
| The weal and woe of France the bells were rung | F |
| For her lost leader Paralyzed of will | N |
| Above his bier the hearts of men stood still | N |
| Then as if set to his dead lips the horn | O |
| Of Roland wound once more to rouse and warn | O |
| The old voice filled the air His last brave word | P |
| Not vainly France to all her boundaries stirred | P |
| Strong as in life he still for Freedom wrought | Q |
| As the dead Cid at red Toloso fought | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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