To Charles Sumner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
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| If I have seemed more prompt to censure wrong | B |
| Than praise the right if seldom to thine ear | C |
| My voice hath mingled with the exultant cheer | D |
| Borne upon all our Northern winds along | B |
| If I have failed to join the fickle throng | B |
| In wide eyed wonder that thou standest strong | B |
| In victory surprised in thee to find | E |
| Brougham's scathing power with Canning's grace combined | E |
| That he for whom the ninefold Muses sang | F |
| From their twined arms a giant athlete sprang | F |
| Barbing the arrows of his native tongue | G |
| With the spent shafts Latona's archer flung | G |
| To smite the Python of our land and time | H |
| Fell as the monster born of Crissa's slime | H |
| Like the blind bard who in Castalian springs | I |
| Tempered the steel that clove the crest of kings | I |
| And on the shrine of England's freedom laid | J |
| The gifts of Cumve and of Delphi's' shade | J |
| Small need hast thou of words of praise from me | K |
| Thou knowest my heart dear friend and well canst guess | L |
| That even though silent I have not the less | L |
| Rejoiced to see thy actual life agree | K |
| With the large future which I shaped for thee | K |
| When years ago beside the summer sea | K |
| White in the moon we saw the long waves fall | M |
| Baffled and broken from the rocky wall | M |
| That to the menace of the brawling flood | N |
| Opposed alone its massive quietude | N |
| Calm as a fate with not a leaf nor vine | O |
| Nor birch spray trembling in the still moonshine | O |
| Crowning it like God's peace I sometimes think | P |
| That night scene by the sea prophetical | M |
| For Nature speaks in symbols and in signs | Q |
| And through her pictures human fate divines | Q |
| That rock wherefrom we saw the billows sink | P |
| In murmuring rout uprising clear and tall | M |
| In the white light of heaven the type of one | R |
| Who momently by Error's host assailed | N |
| Stands strong as Truth in greaves of granite mailed | N |
| And tranquil fronted listening over all | M |
| The tumult hears the angels say Well done | R |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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