The Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AFGGF HIJIJ HKLLK AHMMH| Red of the Dawn | A |
| Screams of a babe in the red hot palms of a Moloch of Tyre | B |
| Man with his brotherless dinner on man in the tropical wood | C |
| Priests in the name of the Lord passing souls through fire to the fire | D |
| Head hunters and boats of Dahomey that float upon human blood | E |
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| Red of the Dawn | A |
| Godless fury of peoples and Christless frolic of kings | F |
| And the bolt of war dashing down upon cities and blazing farms | G |
| For Babylon was a child newborn and Rome was a babe in arms | G |
| And London and Paris and all the rest are as yet but in leading strings | F |
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| Dawn not Day | H |
| While scandal is mouthing a bloodless name at her cannibal feast | I |
| And rake ruined bodies and souls go down in a common wreck | J |
| And the Press of a thousand cities is prized for it smells of the beast | I |
| Or easily violates virgin Truth for a coin or a check | J |
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| Dawn not Day | H |
| Is it Shame so few should have climbed from the dens in the level below | K |
| Men with a heart and a soul no slaves of a four footed will | L |
| But if twenty million of summers are stored in the sunlight still | L |
| We are far from the noon of man there is time for the race to grow | K |
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| Red of the Dawn | A |
| Is it turning a fainter red So be it but when shall we lay | H |
| The Ghost of the Brute that is walking and haunting us yet and be free | M |
| In a hundred a thousand winters Ah what will our children be | M |
| The men of a hundred thousand a million summers away | H |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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