To President Wilson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGFGHIHIJKJKLL| I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you that every people | A |
| has the right to determine its own form of government And until | B |
| recently per cent of the people of Mexico have not had a look in in | C |
| determining who should be their governors or what their government | D |
| should be Speech of President Wilson | E |
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| Wise and just man for such I think you are | F |
| How can you see so burningly and clear | G |
| Injustices and tyrannies afar | F |
| Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near | G |
| How can you plead so earnestly for men | H |
| Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand | I |
| How hold their cause so wildly dear and then | H |
| Forget the women of your native land | I |
| With your stern ardor and your scholar's word | J |
| You speak to us of human liberty | K |
| Can you believe that women are not stirred | J |
| By this same human longing to be free | K |
| He who for liberty would strike a blow | L |
| Need not take arms or fly to Mexico | L |
Alice Duer Miller
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