Freedom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK CGGL| Once I wished I might rehearse | A |
| Freedom's paean in my verse | A |
| That the slave who caught the strain | B |
| Should throb until he snapped his chain | B |
| But the Spirit said 'Not so | C |
| Speak it not or speak it low | C |
| Name not lightly to be said | D |
| Gift too precious to be prayed | E |
| Passion not to be expressed | F |
| But by heaving of the breast | F |
| Yet wouldst thou the mountain find | G |
| Where this deity is shrined | G |
| Who gives to seas and sunset skies | H |
| Their unspent beauty of surprise | H |
| And when it lists him waken can | I |
| Brute or savage into man | I |
| Or if in thy heart he shine | J |
| Blends the starry fates with thine | J |
| Draws angels nigh to dwell with thee | K |
| And makes thy thoughts archangels be | K |
| Freedom's secret wilt thou know | C |
| Counsel not with flesh and blood | G |
| Loiter not for cloak or food | G |
| Right thou feelest rush to do ' | L |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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