Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBAHIJKLB ABMNOPNQRSTNUJBVB| What man is there so bold that he should say | A |
| Thus and thus only would I have the sea | B |
| For whether lying calm and beautiful | C |
| Clasping the earth in love and throwing back | D |
| The smile of heaven from waves of amethyst | E |
| Or whether freshened by the busy winds | F |
| It bears the trade and navies of the world | G |
| To ends of use or stern activity | B |
| Or whether lashed by tempests it gives way | A |
| To elemental fury howls and roars | H |
| At all its rocky barriers in wild lust | I |
| Of ruin drinks the blood of living things | J |
| And strews its wrecks o'er leagues of desolate shore | K |
| Always it is the sea and men bow down | L |
| Before its vast and varied majesty | B |
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| So all in vain will timorous ones essay | A |
| To set the metes and bounds of Liberty | B |
| For Freedom is its own eternal law | M |
| It makes its own conditions and in storm | N |
| Or calm alike fulfills the unerring Will | O |
| Let us not then despise it when it lies | P |
| Still as a sleeping lion while a swarm | N |
| Of gnat like evils hover round its head | Q |
| Nor doubt it when in mad disjointed times | R |
| It shakes the torch of terror and its cry | S |
| Shrills o'er the quaking earth and in the flame | T |
| Of riot and war we see its awful form | N |
| Rise by the scaffold where the crimson axe | U |
| Rings down its grooves the knell of shuddering kings | J |
| Forever in thine eyes O Liberty | B |
| Shines that high light whereby the world is saved | V |
| And though thou slay us we will trust in thee | B |
John Hay
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