The Nations Peril Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDCEFGFH IJIJKLKL MNFNOHOG PQPQRSRS TETDFKFK| Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey | A |
| Where wealth accumulates and men decay | A |
| Goldsmith | B |
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| I fear the palace of the rich | C |
| I fear the hovel of the poor | D |
| Though fortified by moat and ditch | C |
| The castle strong could not endure | E |
| Nor can the squalid hovel be | F |
| A source of strength and those who cause | G |
| This widening discrepancy | F |
| Infringe on God's eternal laws | H |
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| The heritage of man the earth | I |
| Was framed for homes not vast estates | J |
| A lowering scale of human worth | I |
| Each generation demonstrates | J |
| Which feels the landlord's iron hand | K |
| And hopeless plod with effort brave | L |
| Who love no home can love no land | K |
| These own no home until the grave | L |
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| The nation's strongest safeguards lie | M |
| In free and unencumbered homes | N |
| Not in its hordes of vagrancy | F |
| Nor in its proud palatial domes | N |
| Nor can the mercenary sword | O |
| E'er cross with that the freeman draws | H |
| Nor oil upon the waters poured | O |
| Perpetuate an unjust cause | G |
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| Eternal Justice still prevail | P |
| And stay this menace ere too late | Q |
| Ere sturdy manhood droop and fail | P |
| The law immutable of fate | Q |
| No foe can daunt the stalwart heart | R |
| Of him who guards that sacred ground | S |
| Where every hero owns a part | R |
| Where each an ample home has found | S |
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| No more shall battle's lurid gleam | T |
| The cloudless sky of peace obscure | E |
| Nor blood becrimson field or stream | T |
| Nor avarice grind down the poor | D |
| But onward let thy progress be | F |
| A pageant beautiful and grand | K |
| May He who e'er has guided thee | F |
| Protect thee still my native land | K |
Alfred Castner King
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