Voice Of New England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCDDDEEFGGGHHHII IJJJKKKLLLMMNOOOKKKK KKPQPRRRSSSTTTUUUVVV WWWKKKXXYZZZA2A2A2CW CB2B2C2HHHHHD2| UP the hillside down the glen | A |
| Rouse the sleeping citizen | B |
| Summon out the might of men | A |
| Like a lion growling low | C |
| Like a night storm rising slow | C |
| Like the tread of unseen foe | C |
| It is coming it is nigh | D |
| Stand your homes and altars by | D |
| On your own free thresholds die | D |
| Clang the bells in all your spires | E |
| On the gray hills of your sires | E |
| Fling to heaven your signal fires | F |
| From Wachuset lone and bleak | G |
| Unto Berkshire's tallest peak | G |
| Let the flame tougued heralds speak | G |
| Oh for God and duty stand | H |
| Heart to heart and hand to hand | H |
| Round the old graves of the land | H |
| Whoso shrinks or falters now | I |
| Whoso to the yoke would bow | I |
| Brand the craven on his brow | I |
| Freedom's soil hath only place | J |
| For a free and fearless race | J |
| None for traitors false and base | J |
| Perish party perish clan | K |
| Strike together while ye can | K |
| Like the arm of one strong man | K |
| Like that angel's voice sublime | L |
| Heard above a world of crime | L |
| Crying of the end of time | L |
| With one heart and with one mouth | M |
| Let the North unto the South | M |
| Speak the word befitting both | N |
| 'What though Issachar be strong | O |
| Ye may load his back with wrong | O |
| Overmuch and over long | O |
| 'Patience with her cup o'errun | K |
| With her weary thread outspun | K |
| Murmurs that her work is done | K |
| 'Make our Union bond a chain | K |
| Weak as tow in Freedom's strain | K |
| Link by link shall snap in twain | K |
| 'Vainly shall your sand wrought rope | P |
| Bind the starry cluster up | Q |
| Shattered over heaven's blue cope | P |
| 'Give us bright though broken rays | R |
| Rather than eternal haze | R |
| Clouding o'er the full orbed blaze | R |
| 'Take your land of sun and bloom | S |
| Only leave to Freedom room | S |
| For her plough and forge and loom | S |
| 'Take your slavery blackened vales | T |
| Leave us but our own free gales | T |
| Blowing on our thousand sails | T |
| 'Boldly or with treacherous art | U |
| Strike the blood wrought chain apart | U |
| Break the Union's mighty heart | U |
| 'Work the ruin if ye will | V |
| Pluck upon your heads an ill | V |
| Which shall grow and deepen still | V |
| 'With your bondman's right arm bare | W |
| With his heart of black despair | W |
| Stand alone if stand ye dare | W |
| 'Onward with your fell design | K |
| Dig the gulf and draw the line | K |
| Fire beneath your feet the mine | K |
| 'Deeply when the wide abyss | X |
| Yawns between your land and this | X |
| Shall ye feel your helplessness | Y |
| 'By the hearth and in the bed | Z |
| Shaken by a look or tread | Z |
| Ye shall own a guilty dread | Z |
| 'And the curse of unpaid toil | A2 |
| Downward through your generous soil | A2 |
| Like a fire shall burn and spoil | A2 |
| 'Our bleak hills shall bud and blow | C |
| VInes our rocks shall overgrow | W |
| Plenty in our valleys flow | C |
| 'And when vengeance clouds your skies | B2 |
| Hither shall ye turn your eyes | B2 |
| As the lost on Paradise | C2 |
| 'We but ask our rocky strand | H |
| Freedom's true and brother band | H |
| Freedom's strong and honest hand | H |
| 'Valleys by the slave untrod | H |
| And the Pilgrim's mountain sod | H |
| Blessed of our fathers' God ' | D2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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