What Of The Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDEFCCGGGGHIHI JEEEFKKKFI| A SOUND of tumult troubles all the air | A |
| Like the low thunders of a sultry sky | B |
| Far rolling ere the downright lightnings glare | A |
| The hills blaze red with warnings foes draw nigh | B |
| Treading the dark with challenge and reply | B |
| Behold the burden of the prophet's vision | C |
| The gathering hosts the Valley of Decision | C |
| Dusk with the wings of eagles wheeling o'er | D |
| Day of the Lord of darkness and not light | E |
| It breaks in thunder and the whirlwind's roar | F |
| Even so Father Let Thy will be done | C |
| Turn and o'erturn end what Thou hast begun | C |
| In judgment or in mercy as for me | G |
| If but the least and frailest let me be | G |
| Evermore numbered with the truly free | G |
| Who find Thy service perfect liberty | G |
| I fain would thank Thee that my mortal life | H |
| Has reached the hour albeit through care and pain | I |
| When Good and Evil as for final strife | H |
| Close dim and vast on Armageddon's plain | I |
| And Michael and his angels once again | J |
| Drive howling back the Spirits of the Night | E |
| Oh for the faith to read the signs aright | E |
| And from the angle of Thy perfect sight | E |
| See Truth's white banner floating on before | F |
| And the Good Cause despite of venal friends | K |
| And base expedients move to noble ends | K |
| See Peace with Freedom make to Time amends | K |
| And through its cloud of dust the threshing floor | F |
| Flailed by the thunder heaped with chaffless grain | I |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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