Wilson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF HHIJJI GGKLLK MMNOPN QQRGGR SSTGGT| The lowliest born of all the land | A |
| He wrung from Fate's reluctant hand | A |
| The gifts which happier boyhood claims | B |
| And tasting on a thankless soil | C |
| The bitter bread of unpaid toil | C |
| He fed his soul with noble aims | B |
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| And Nature kindly provident | D |
| To him the future's promise lent | E |
| The powers that shape man's destinies | F |
| Patience and faith and toil he knew | G |
| The close horizon round him grew | G |
| Broad with great possibilities | F |
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| By the low hearth fire's fitful blaze | H |
| He read of old heroic days | H |
| The sage's thought the patriot's speech | I |
| Unhelped alone himself he taught | J |
| His school the craft at which he wrought | J |
| His lore the book within his reach | I |
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| He felt his country's need he knew | G |
| The work her children had to do | G |
| And when at last he heard the call | K |
| In her behalf to serve and dare | L |
| Beside his senatorial chair | L |
| He stood the unquestioned peer of all | K |
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| Beyond the accident of birth | M |
| He proved his simple manhood's worth | M |
| Ancestral pride and classic grace | N |
| Confessed the large brained artisan | O |
| So clear of sight so wise in plan | P |
| And counsel equal to his place | N |
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| With glance intuitive he saw | Q |
| Through all disguise of form and law | Q |
| And read men like an open book | R |
| Fearless and firm he never quailed | G |
| Nor turned aside for threats nor failed | G |
| To do the thing he undertook | R |
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| How wise how brave he was how well | S |
| He bore himself let history tell | S |
| While waves our flag o'er land and sea | T |
| No black thread in its warp or weft | G |
| He found dissevered States he left | G |
| A grateful Nation strong and free | T |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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