Seventy-six Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDDDD EDEED FGFFG DHDDH IJIIJ DKDDK| What heroes from the woodland sprung | A |
| When through the fresh awakened land | B |
| The thrilling cry of freedom rung | A |
| And to the work of warfare strung | A |
| The yeoman's iron hand | B |
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| Hills flung the cry to hills around | C |
| And ocean mart replied to mart | D |
| And streams whose springs were yet unfound | D |
| Pealed far away the startling sound | D |
| Into the forest's heart | D |
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| Then marched the brave from rocky steep | E |
| From mountain river swift and cold | D |
| The borders of the stormy deep | E |
| The vales where gathered waters sleep | E |
| Sent up the strong and bold | D |
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| As if the very earth again | F |
| Grew quick with God's creating breath | G |
| And from the sods of grove and glen | F |
| Rose ranks of lion hearted men | F |
| To battle to the death | G |
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| The wife whose babe first smiled that day | D |
| The fair fond bride of yestereve | H |
| And aged sire and matron gray | D |
| Saw the loved warriors haste away | D |
| And deemed it sin to grieve | H |
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| Already had the strife begun | I |
| Already blood on Concord's plain | J |
| Along the springing grass had run | I |
| And blood had flowed at Lexington | I |
| Like brooks of April rain | J |
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| That death stain on the vernal sward | D |
| Hallowed to freedom all the shore | K |
| In fragments fell the yoke abhorred | D |
| The footstep of a foreign lord | D |
| Profaned the soil no more | K |
William Cullen Bryant
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