To Pennsylvania Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDEFFEGGHIJHKK LMMLNNOPPO| O STATE prayer founded never hung | A |
| Such choice upon a people's tongue | A |
| Such power to bless or ban | B |
| As that which makes thy whisper Fate | C |
| For which on thee the centuries wait | C |
| And destinies of man | B |
| Across thy Alleghanian chain | D |
| With groanings from a land in pain | D |
| The west wind finds its way | E |
| Wild wailing from Missouri's flood | F |
| The crying of thy children's blood | F |
| Is in thy ears to day | E |
| And unto thee in Freedom's hour | G |
| Of sorest need God gives the power | G |
| To ruin or to save | H |
| To wound or heal to blight or bless | I |
| With fertile field or wilderness | J |
| A free home or a grave | H |
| Then let thy virtue match the crime | K |
| Rise to a level with the time | K |
| And if a son of thine | L |
| Betray or tempt thee Brutus like | M |
| For Fatherland and Freedom strike | M |
| As Justice gives the sign | L |
| Wake sleeper from thy dream of ease | N |
| The great occasion's forelock seize | N |
| And let the north wind strong | O |
| And golden leaves of autumn be | P |
| Thy coronal of Victory | P |
| And thy triumphal song | O |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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