Robinson Of Leyden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HHHH HIHI JKJ LHMH NHNH OPOP QRQR STST UFGF| HE sleeps not here in hope and prayer | A |
| His wandering flock had gone before | B |
| But he the shepherd might not share | A |
| Their sorrows on the wintry shore | B |
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| Before the Speedwell's anchor swung | C |
| Ere yet the Mayflower's sail was spread | D |
| While round his feet the Pilgrims clung | C |
| The pastor spake and thus he said | D |
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| 'Men brethren sisters children dear | E |
| God calls you hence from over sea | F |
| Ye may not build by Haerlem Meer | G |
| Nor yet along the Zuyder Zee | F |
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| 'Ye go to bear the saving word | H |
| To tribes unnamed and shores untrod | H |
| Heed well the lessons ye have heard | H |
| From those old teachers taught of God | H |
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| 'Yet think not unto them was lent | H |
| All light for all the coming days | I |
| And Heaven's eternal wisdom spent | H |
| In making straight the ancient ways | I |
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| 'The living fountain overflows | J |
| For every flock for every lamb | K |
| Nor heeds though angry creeds oppose | J |
| With Luther's dike or Calvin's dam ' | - |
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| He spake with lingering long embrace | L |
| With tears of love and partings fond | H |
| They floated down the creeping Maas | M |
| Along the isle of Ysselmond | H |
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| They passed the frowning towers of Briel | N |
| The 'Hook of Holland's' shelf of sand | H |
| And grated soon with lifting keel | N |
| The sullen shores of Fatherland | H |
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| No home for these too well they knew | O |
| The mitred king behind the throne | P |
| The sails were set the pennons flew | O |
| And westward ho for worlds unknown | P |
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| And these were they who gave us birth | Q |
| The Pilgrims of the sunset wave | R |
| Who won for us this virgin earth | Q |
| And freedom with the soil they gave | R |
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| The pastor slumbers by the Rhine | S |
| In alien earth the exiles lie | T |
| Their nameless graves our holiest shrine | S |
| His words our noblest battle cry | T |
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| Still cry them and the world shall hear | U |
| Ye dwellers by the storm swept sea | F |
| Ye have not built by Haerlem Meer | G |
| Nor on the land locked Zuyder Zee | F |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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