Equality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA ACAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLMMad fools To think that men can be | A |
Made equal all when God | B |
Made one well nigh divinity | A |
And one a soulless clod | A |
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Nowhere in Nature can we find | A |
Things equal save in death | C |
One man must rule with thoughtful mind | A |
One serve with panting breath | C |
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The maples spread their foliage green | D |
To shade the grass below | E |
Hills rise the lowly vales between | D |
Or streams would never flow | E |
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A million creatures find a home | F |
Within a droplet's sphere | G |
And giants through the woodlands roam | F |
While quakes the land in fear | G |
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A tiny fall in music breaks | H |
Against the mountain's base | I |
While roars an avalanche and shakes | H |
The whole world in its race | I |
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One must be weak and one be strong | J |
One huge another small | K |
To help this teeming world along | J |
And make a home for all | K |
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Equality is death not life | L |
In Nature and with man | M |
And progress is but upward strife | L |
With some one in the van | M |
Arthur Weir
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