To Delaware Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGHGFFGIJJIK LLK| THRICE welcome to thy sisters of the East | A |
| To the strong tillers of a rugged home | B |
| With spray wet locks to Northern winds released | A |
| And hardy feet o'erswept by ocean's foam | B |
| And to the young nymphs of the golden West | C |
| Whose harvest mantles fringed with prairie bloom | D |
| Trail in the sunset O redeemed and blest | C |
| To the warm welcome of thy sisters come | E |
| Broad Pennsylvania down her sail white bay | F |
| Shall give thee joy and Jersey from her plains | G |
| And the great lakes where echo free alway | H |
| Moaned never shoreward with the clank of chains | G |
| Shall weave new sun bows in their tossing spray | F |
| And all their waves keep grateful holiday | F |
| And smiling on thee through her mountain rains | G |
| Vermont shall bless thee and the granite peaks | I |
| And vast Katahdin o'er his woods shall wear | J |
| Their snow crowns brighter in the cold keen air | J |
| And Massachusetts with her rugged cheeks | I |
| O'errun with grateful tears shall turn to thee | K |
| When at thy bidding the electric wire | L |
| Shall tremble northward with its words of fire | L |
| Glory and praise to God another State is free | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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