Lincoln Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDF G CCCCCCCCHIJKIJ G ELLEELLECMMCMM| Yea this is he whose name is synonym | A |
| Of all that's noble though but lowly born | B |
| Who took command upon a stormy morn | B |
| When few had hope Although uncouth of limb | A |
| Homely of face and gaunt but never grim | A |
| Beautiful he was with that which none may scorn | B |
| With love of God and man and things forlorn | B |
| And freedom mighty as the soul in him | A |
| Large at the helm of State he leans and looms | C |
| With the grave kindly look of those who die | D |
| Doing their duty Staunch unswervingly | E |
| Onward he steers beneath portentous glooms | C |
| And overwhelming thunders of the sky | D |
| Till safe in port he sees a people free | F |
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| II | G |
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| Safe from the storm the harbour lights of Peace | C |
| Before his eyes the burden of dark fears | C |
| Cast from him like a cloak and in his ears | C |
| The heart beat music of a great release | C |
| Captain and pilot back upon the seas | C |
| Whose wrath he'd weathered back he looks with tears | C |
| Seeing no shadow of the Death that nears | C |
| Stealthy and sure with sudden agonies | C |
| So let him stand brother to every man | H |
| Ready for toil or battle he who held | I |
| A Nation's destinies within his hand | J |
| Type of our greatness first American | K |
| By whom the hearts of all men are compelled | I |
| And with whose name Freedom unites our Land | J |
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| III | G |
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| He needs no praise of us who wrought so well | E |
| Who has the Master's praise who at his post | L |
| Stood to the last Yet now from coast to coast | L |
| Let memory of him peal like some great bell | E |
| Of him as woodsman workman let it tell | E |
| Of him as lawyer statesman without boast | L |
| And for what qualities we love him most | L |
| And recollections that no time can quell | E |
| He needs no praise of us yet let us praise | C |
| Albeit his simple soul we may offend | M |
| That liked not praise being most diffident | M |
| Still let us praise him praise him in such ways | C |
| As his were and in words that shall transcend | M |
| Marble and outlast any monument | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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