Boston Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GEGF HIJI KJLJ MNMO PQRS RTUT VWVX YZA2B2 XC2D2C2 UD2UD2 UE2UE2 D2QF2Q YG2F2G2 YH2HH2 I2J2VJ2 YK2YK2 D2BD2B D2L2D2L2 F2D2F2D2 D2M2D2M2| The word of the Lord by night | A |
| To the watching Pilgrims came | B |
| As they sat by the seaside | C |
| And filled their hearts with flame | B |
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| God said I am tired of kings | D |
| I suffer them no more | E |
| Up to my ear the morning brings | D |
| The outrage of the poor | F |
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| Think ye I made this ball | G |
| A field of havoc and war | E |
| Where tyrants great and tyrants small | G |
| Might harry the weak and poor | F |
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| My angel his name is Freedom | H |
| Choose him to be your king | I |
| He shall cut pathways east and west | J |
| And fend you with his wing | I |
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| Lo I uncover the land | K |
| Which I hid of old time in the West | J |
| As the sculptor uncovers the statue | L |
| When he has wrought his best | J |
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| I show Columbia of the rocks | M |
| Which dip their foot in the seas | N |
| And soar to the air borne flocks | M |
| Of clouds and the boreal fleece | O |
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| I will divide my goods | P |
| Call in the wretch and slave | Q |
| None shall rule but the humble | R |
| And none but Toil shall have | S |
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| I will have never a noble | R |
| No lineage counted great | T |
| Fishers and choppers and ploughmen | U |
| Shall constitute a state | T |
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| Go cut down trees in the forest | V |
| And trim the straightest boughs | W |
| Cut down the trees in the forest | V |
| And build me a wooden house | X |
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| Call the people together | Y |
| The young men and the sires | Z |
| The digger in the harvest field | A2 |
| Hireling and him that hires | B2 |
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| And here in a pine state house | X |
| They shall choose men to rule | C2 |
| In every needful faculty | D2 |
| In church and state and school | C2 |
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| Lo now if these poor men | U |
| Can govern the land and sea | D2 |
| And make just laws below the sun | U |
| As planets faithful be | D2 |
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| And ye shall succour men | U |
| 'T is nobleness to serve | E2 |
| Help them who cannot help again | U |
| Beware from right to swerve | E2 |
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| I break your bonds and masterships | D2 |
| And I unchain the slave | Q |
| Free be his heart and hand henceforth | F2 |
| As wind and wandering wave | Q |
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| I cause from every creature | Y |
| His proper good to flow | G2 |
| As much as he is and doeth | F2 |
| So much he shall bestow | G2 |
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| But laying hands on another | Y |
| To coin his labour and sweat | H2 |
| He goes in pawn to his victim | H |
| For eternal years in debt | H2 |
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| To day unbind the captive | I2 |
| So only are ye unbound | J2 |
| Lift up a people from the dust | V |
| Trump of their rescue sound | J2 |
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| Pay ransom to the owner | Y |
| And fill the bag to the brim | K2 |
| Who is the owner The slave is owner | Y |
| And ever was Pay him | K2 |
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| O North give him beauty for rags | D2 |
| And honour O South for his shame | B |
| Nevada coin thy golden crags | D2 |
| With Freedom's image and name | B |
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| Up and the dusky race | D2 |
| That sat in darkness long | L2 |
| Be swift their feet as antelopes | D2 |
| And as behemoth strong | L2 |
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| Come East and West and North | F2 |
| By races as snow flakes | D2 |
| And carry my purpose forth | F2 |
| Which neither halts nor shakes | D2 |
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| My will fulfilled shall be | D2 |
| For in daylight or in dark | M2 |
| My thunderbolt has eyes to see | D2 |
| His way home to the mark | M2 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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