Equality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAA ACAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| Mad 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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