To George B. Cheever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABC DEEFF BBCGG HIHJK| So spake Esaias so in words of flame | A |
| Tekoa's prophet herdsman smote with blame | A |
| The traffickers in men and put to shame | A |
| All earth and heaven before | B |
| The sacerdotal robbers of the poor | C |
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| All the dread Scripture lives for thee again | D |
| To smite like lightning on the hands profane | E |
| Lifted to bless the slave whip and the chain | E |
| Once more the old Hebrew tongue | F |
| Bends with the shafts of God a bow new strung | F |
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| Take up the mantle which the prophets wore | B |
| Warn with their warnings show the Christ once more | B |
| Bound scourged and crucified in His blameless poor | C |
| And shake above our land | G |
| The unquenched bolts that blazed in Hosea's hand | G |
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| Not vainly shalt thou cast upon our years | H |
| The solemn burdens of the Orient seers | I |
| And smite with truth a guilty nation's ears | H |
| Mightier was Luther's word | J |
| Than Seckingen's mailed arm or Hutton's sword | K |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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