To The Memory Of Charles B. Storrs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGAGHBGB IDGDFJKJ ALELAMNM EEOEJJPJ EQERJJJJ ASESEJEJ ETETAJEJ AUDUVWVW EHJHAPXPThou hast fallen in thine armor | A |
Thou martyr of the Lord | B |
With thy last breath crying 'Onward ' | C |
And thy hand upon the sword | B |
The haughty heart derideth | D |
And the sinful lip reviles | E |
But the blessing of the perishing | F |
Around thy pillow smiles | E |
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When to our cup of trembling | F |
The added drop is given | G |
And the long suspended thunder | A |
Falls terribly from Heaven | G |
When a new and fearful freedom | H |
Is proffered of the Lord | B |
To the slow consuming Famine | G |
The Pestilence and Sword | B |
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When the refuges of Falsehood | I |
Shall be swept away in wrath | D |
And the temple shall be shaken | G |
With its idol to the earth | D |
Shall not thy words of warning | F |
Be all remembered then | J |
And thy now unheeded message | K |
Burn in the hearts of men | J |
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Oppression's hand may scatter | A |
Its nettles on thy tomb | L |
And even Christian bosoms | E |
Deny thy memory room | L |
For lying lips shall torture | A |
Thy mercy into crime | M |
And the slanderer shall flourish | N |
As the bay tree for a time | M |
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But where the south wind lingers | E |
On Carolina's pines | E |
Or falls the careless sunbeam | O |
Down Georgia's golden mines | E |
Where now beneath his burthen | J |
The toiling slave is driven | J |
Where now a tyrant's mockery | P |
Is offered unto Heaven | J |
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Where Mammon hath its altars | E |
Wet o'er with human blood | Q |
And pride and lust debases | E |
The workmanship of God | R |
There shall thy praise be spoken | J |
Redeemed from Falsehood's ban | J |
When the fetters shall be broken | J |
And the slave shall be a man | J |
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Joy to thy spirit brother | A |
A thousand hearts are warm | S |
A thousand kindred bosoms | E |
Are baring to the storm | S |
What though red handed Violence | E |
With secret Fraud combine | J |
The wall of fire is round us | E |
Our Present Help was thine | J |
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Lo the waking up of nations | E |
From Slavery's fatal sleep | T |
The murmur of a Universe | E |
Deep calling unto Deep | T |
Joy to thy spirit brother | A |
On every wind of heaven | J |
The onward cheer and summons | E |
Of Freedom's voice is given | J |
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Glory to God forever | A |
Beyond the despot's will | U |
The soul of Freedom liveth | D |
Imperishable still | U |
The words which thou hast uttered | V |
Are of that soul a part | W |
And the good seed thou hast scattered | V |
Is springing from the heart | W |
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In the evil days before us | E |
And the trials yet to come | H |
In the shadow of the prison | J |
Or the cruel martyrdom | H |
We will think of thee O brother | A |
And thy sainted name shall be | P |
In the blessing of the captive | X |
And the anthem of the free | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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