To John C. Freemont Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEEDFCFCGCGCHHII JJKCKC| THY error Fr mont simply was to act | A |
| A brave man's part without the statesman's tact | A |
| And taking counsel but of common sense | B |
| To strike at cause as well as consequence | C |
| Oh never yet since Roland wound his horn | D |
| At Roncesvalles has a blast been blown | E |
| Far heard wide echoed startling as thine own | E |
| Heard from the van of freedom's hope forlorn | D |
| It had been safer doubtless for the time | F |
| To flatter treason and avoid offence | C |
| To that Dark Power whose underlying crime | F |
| Heaves upward its perpetual turbulence | C |
| But if thine be the fate of all who break | G |
| The ground for truth's seed or forerun their years | C |
| Till lost in distance or with stout hearts make | G |
| A lane for freedom through the level spears | C |
| Still take thou courage God has spoken through thee | H |
| Irrevocable the mighty words Be free | H |
| The land shakes with them and the slave's dull ear | I |
| Turns from the rice swamp stealthily to hear | I |
| Who would recall them now must first arrest | J |
| The winds that blow down from the free Northwest | J |
| Ruffling the Gulf or like a scroll roll back | K |
| The Mississippi to its upper springs | C |
| Such words fulfil their prophecy and lack | K |
| But the full time to harden into things | C |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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