What The Voice Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DECE FGGG H GIG DJGJ AKDK LMNM DOPO QRSR SCCC DTDT UVCV GSOS SGAG OWA DXSY SZDA2| MADDENED by Earth's wrong and evil | A |
| 'Lord ' I cried in sudden ire | B |
| 'From Thy right hand clothed with thunder | C |
| Shake the bolted fire | C |
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| 'Love is lost and Faith is dying | D |
| With the brute the man is sold | E |
| And the dropping blood of labor | C |
| Hardens into gold | E |
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| 'Here the dying wail of Famine | F |
| There the battle's groan of pain | G |
| And in silence smooth faced Mammon | G |
| Reaping men like grain | G |
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| ''Where is God that we should fear Him ' | - |
| Thus the earth born Titans say | H |
| 'God if Thou art living hear us ' | - |
| Thus the weak ones pray ' | - |
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| 'Thou the patient Heaven upbraiding ' | - |
| Spake a solemn Voice within | G |
| 'Weary of our Lord's forbearance | I |
| Art thou free from sin | G |
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| 'Fearless brow to Him uplifting | D |
| Canst thou for His thunders call | J |
| Knowing that to guilt's attraction | G |
| Evermore they fall | J |
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| 'Know'st thou not all germs of evil | A |
| In thy heart await their time | K |
| Not thyself but God's restraining | D |
| Stays their growth of crime | K |
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| 'Couldst thou boast O child of weakness | L |
| O'er the sons of wrong and strife | M |
| Were their strong temptations planted | N |
| In thy path of life | M |
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| 'Thou hast seen two streamlets gushing | D |
| From one fountain clear and free | O |
| But by widely varying channels | P |
| Searching for the sea | O |
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| 'Glideth one through greenest valleys | Q |
| Kissing them with lips still sweet | R |
| One mad roaring down the mountains | S |
| Stagnates at their feet | R |
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| 'Is it choice whereby the Parsee | S |
| Kneels before his mother's fire | C |
| In his black tent did the Tartar | C |
| Choose his wandering sire | C |
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| 'He alone whose hand is bounding | D |
| Human power and human will | T |
| Looking through each soul's surrounding | D |
| Knows its good or ill | T |
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| 'For thyself while wrong and sorrow | U |
| Make to thee their strong appeal | V |
| Coward wert thou not to utter | C |
| What the heart must feel | V |
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| 'Earnest words must needs be spoken | G |
| When the warm heart bleeds or burns | S |
| With its scorn of wrong or pity | O |
| For the wronged by turns | S |
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| 'But by all thy nature's weakness | S |
| Hidden faults and follies known | G |
| Be thou in rebuking evil | A |
| Conscious of thine own | G |
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| 'Not the less shall stern eyed Duty | O |
| To thy lips her trumpet set | W |
| But with harsher blasts shall mingle | A |
| Wailings of regret ' | - |
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| Cease not Voice of holy speaking | D |
| Teacher sent of God be near | X |
| Whispering through the day's cool silence | S |
| Let my spirit hear | Y |
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| So when thoughts of evil doers | S |
| Waken scorn or hatred move | Z |
| Shall a mournful fellow feeling | D |
| Temper all with love | A2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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