Jerusalem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEGEHEDIJIJ KHKDELELKHKDLMLMNHND| AT last at last the Crescent | A |
| Falls back before the Cross | B |
| Great spirits incandescent | A |
| With longing and with loss | B |
| Gleam from the clouds crusaders | C |
| Who knew no requiem | D |
| While Saladin's invaders | C |
| Possessed Jerusalem | D |
| King David harps for Zion | E |
| A glad celestial psalm | F |
| The face of the young lion | E |
| Is toward the sacred palm | G |
| New Europe's noblest nation | E |
| Has won the diadem | H |
| Of him who brings salvation | E |
| To thee Jerusalem | D |
| Isaiah Hosea Amos | I |
| Who cried against thy sin | J |
| Whose vision saw thy famous | I |
| Bright bulwarks beaten in | J |
| And made a cup of trembling | K |
| God's house a broken gem | H |
| On all the winds assembling | K |
| Comfort Jerusalem | D |
| The Christ Messiah proven | E |
| Whose Gentile armies free | L |
| Thy walls not battle cloven | E |
| But won with jubilee | L |
| As when thy people pressing | K |
| Would touch His garment's hem | H |
| Enters with love and blessing | K |
| Thy gates Jerusalem | D |
| Arise and shine O City | L |
| The joy of all the earth | M |
| Show poverty God's pity | L |
| Teach misery God's mirth | M |
| Be thou to all the nations | N |
| A light ay even to them | H |
| Who wrought thy tribulations | N |
| Holy Jerusalem | D |
Katharine Lee Bates
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