To Massachusetts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGHIHJDKDK LMLMNONOPQRQDSDSLPLP NTNUVWXW| WHAT though around thee blazes | A |
| No fiery rallying sign | B |
| From all thy own high places | C |
| Give heaven the light of thine | B |
| What though unthrilled unmoving | D |
| The statesman stand apart | E |
| And comes no warm approving | D |
| From Mammon's crowded mart | E |
| Still let the land be shaken | F |
| By a summons of thine own | G |
| By all save truth forsaken | F |
| Stand fast with that alone | G |
| Shrink not from strife unequal | H |
| With the best is always hope | I |
| And ever in the sequel | H |
| God holds the right side up | J |
| But when with thine uniting | D |
| Come voices long and loud | K |
| And far off hills are writing | D |
| Thy fire words on the cloud | K |
| When from Penobscot's fountains | L |
| A deep response is heard | M |
| And across the Western mountains | L |
| Rolls back thy rallying word | M |
| Shall thy line of battle falter | N |
| With its allies just in view | O |
| Oh by hearth and holy altar | N |
| My fatherland be true | O |
| Fling abroad thy scrolls of freedom | P |
| Speed them onward far and fast | Q |
| Over hill and valley speed them | R |
| Like the sibyl's on the blast | Q |
| Lo The Empire State is shaking | D |
| The shackles from her hand | S |
| With the rugged North is waking | D |
| The level sunset land | S |
| On they come the free battalions | L |
| East and West and North they come | P |
| And the heart beat of the millions | L |
| Is the beat of Freedom's drum | P |
| 'To the tyrant's plot no favor | N |
| No heed to place fed knaves | T |
| Bar and bolt the door forever | N |
| Against the land of slaves ' | U |
| Hear it mother Earth and hear it | V |
| The heavens above us spread | W |
| The land is roused its spirit | X |
| Was sleeping but not dead | W |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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