Mirage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE FGFG FHFH IJIJ GKGK LMNM AOAO APAA| Is it a will o' the wisp or is dawn breaking | A |
| That our horizon wears so strange a hue | B |
| Is it but one more dream or are we waking | A |
| To find that dreams at last are coming true | B |
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| Aye surely in that golden glimmer streaking | A |
| The cloudy sky line of the life of man | C |
| We see the blessed day he has been seeking | A |
| In all directions since the world began | C |
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| Sign to each struggling and exhausted nation | D |
| Of hope fulfilled redemption and release | E |
| Sign of the end of needless tribulation | D |
| And the beginning of the reign of Peace | E |
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| Country with country brother with his brother | F |
| Content to share and not to grab and steal | G |
| Ceasing the wild beast battle each with other | F |
| To work in concert for the common weal | G |
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| No class strife more neighbour with differing neighbour | F |
| No waste or want to breed the plague of crime | H |
| No soul debasing pomp and sordid labour | F |
| No wars no famines in the coming time | H |
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| But swords of slaughter valour and brains and money | I |
| Turned into ploughshares for the lands redeemed | J |
| To fill men's homes as full as hives of honey | I |
| With wealth unknown and happiness undreamed | J |
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| Great Art no more the plaything of the idle | G |
| But nurse and minister to every need | K |
| Nature no longer cowed with bit and bridle | G |
| Conscience enfranchised and Religion freed | K |
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| All round our darksome isle the tide encroaches | L |
| Distant and dim as yet but spreading fast | M |
| The reign of Love and Liberty approaches | N |
| The heirs are coming to their own at last | M |
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| Hark What was that The vanquished devil howling | A |
| With guns and bombs for brother devil's blood | O |
| The primal savage out again befouling | A |
| All this fair promise with his primal mud | O |
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| Alas So soon to see our lovely morning | A |
| Back in the hopeless night whence it arose | P |
| And have no time to wait another dawning | A |
| O Lord how long how long | A |
Ada Cambridge
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