Boston Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDE FGHGII JKJ LL MENDOO PQPRSS TUTUVV WXWX YOYO EZEZ XOV II BA2B BRBR B2BB2BR C2D2C2E2F2G2 H2BH2BSS I2J2I2J2 SK2SK2L2L2 M2YM2Y N2O2N2O2 OP2OP2Q2Q2

Sicut Patribus sit Deus NobisA
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The rocky nook with hilltops threeB
Looked eastward from the farmsC
And twice each day the flowing seaB
Took Boston in its armsC
The men of yore were stout and poorD
And sailed for bread to every shoreE
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And where they went on trade intentF
They did what freeman canG
Their dauntless ways did all men praiseH
The merchant was a manG
The world was made for honest tradeI
To plant and eat be none afraidI
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The waves that rocked them on the deepJ
To them their secret toldK
Said the winds that sung the lads to sleepJ
'Like us be free and bold '-
The honest waves refuse to slavesL
The empire of the ocean cavesL
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Old Europe groans with palacesM
Has lords enough and moreE
We plant and build by foaming seasN
A city of the poorD
For day by day could Boston BayO
Their honest labor overpayO
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We grant no dukedoms to the fewP
We hold like rights and shallQ
Equal on Sunday in the pewP
On Monday in the mallR
For what avail the plough or sailS
Or land or life if freedom failS
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The noble craftsmen we promoteT
Disown the knave and foolU
Each honest man shall have his voteT
Each child shall have his schoolU
A union then of honest menV
Or union nevermore againV
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The wild rose and the barberry thornW
Hung out their summer prideX
Where now on heated pavements wornW
The feet of millions strideX
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Fair rose the planted hills behindY
The good town on the bayO
And where the western hills declinedY
The prairie stretched awayO
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What care though rival cities soarE
Along the stormy coastZ
Penn's town New York and BaltimoreE
If Boston knew the mostZ
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They laughed to know the world so wideX
The mountains said 'Good dayO
We greet you well you Saxon menV
Up with your towns and stay '-
The world was made for honest tradeI
To plant and eat be none afraidI
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'For you ' they said 'no barriers beB
For you no sluggard restA2
Each street leads downward to the seaB
Or landward to the West '-
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O happy town beside the seaB
Whose roads lead everywhere to allR
Than thine no deeper moat can beB
No stouter fence no steeper wallR
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Bad news from George on the English throneB2
'You are thriving well ' said heB
'Now by these presents be it knownB2
You shall pay us a tax on teaB
'Tis very small no load at allR
Honor enough that we send the call '-
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'Not so ' said Boston 'good my lordC2
We pay your governors hereD2
Abundant for their bed and boardC2
Six thousand pounds a yearE2
Your highness knows our homely wordF2
Millions for self governmentG2
But for tribute never a cent '-
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The cargo came and who could blameH2
If Indians seized the teaB
And chest by chest let down the sameH2
Into the laughing seaB
For what avail the plough or sailS
Or land or life if freedom failS
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The townsmen braved the English kingI2
Found friendship in the FrenchJ2
And Honor joined the patriot ringI2
Low on their wooden benchJ2
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O bounteous seas that never failS
O day remembered yetK2
O happy port that spied the sailS
Which wafted LafayetteK2
Pole star of light in Europe's nightL2
That never faltered from the rightL2
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Kings shook with fear old empires craveM2
The secret force to findY
Which fired the little State to saveM2
The rights of all mankindY
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But right is might through all the worldN2
Province to province faithful clungO2
Through good and ill the war bolt hurledN2
Till Freedom cheered and the joy bells rungO2
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The sea returning day by dayO
Restores the world wide martP2
So let each dweller on the BayO
Fold Boston in his heartP2
Till these echoes be choked with snowsQ2
Or over the town blue ocean flowsQ2

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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