May Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKJK LMNM OPQP RSTS UVWX YZA2Z B2C2D2C2 E2F2D2F2 G2H2I2H2 J2BSB| Come Jack our place is with the ruck | A |
| On the open road today | B |
| Not with the tepid footpath sneak | C |
| Or with the wise who stop away | B |
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| A straggling tame procession perhaps | D |
| A butt for burgess scorn | E |
| Its flags are ragged sentiments | F |
| And its music's still unborn | E |
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| Though none respectable are here | G |
| And trim officials ban | H |
| Our duty Jack is not with them | I |
| But here with Hope and Man | H |
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| Nor have we cause for shame who see | J |
| In the glory lighted street | K |
| The Old Brigade of Liberty | J |
| The partial ranks complete | K |
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| There's Shelley Byron arm in arm | L |
| With Schiller Uhland near | M |
| While cheek by jowl with anarch crank | N |
| See young Camille appear | M |
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| Marat keeps line with Spartacus | O |
| Lone Dantes grimly stalk | P |
| The meagre Knights of Labour push | Q |
| With the Twelve Apostles walk | P |
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| Bakunin Marx Lassalle are there | R |
| Grey Whitman's with the Greeks | S |
| Dutch Beggar chums with Ironside | T |
| Or to Bastille hero speaks | S |
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| Valliant and Brutus Vane Kossuth | U |
| Find here a fitting tryst | V |
| That Yarra banker far ahead | W |
| Is keeping step with Christ | X |
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| Before behind around surge on | Y |
| Those unknown Great whose yeast | Z |
| Impermeant ensures result | A2 |
| Tho' Hope's own song had ceased | Z |
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| With flowers today the sky's festooned | B2 |
| To yearning hosts a sigh | C2 |
| On winds perfumed with memories | D2 |
| May's fair winged forecasts fly | C2 |
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| No longer prostitute to Wealth | E2 |
| amoung the aery show | F2 |
| The Lyric Muse accompanies | D2 |
| The Marseillaise below | F2 |
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| And how the gales of Freedom move | G2 |
| Like wildfire's leap and fall | H2 |
| Or north wind's through autumnal grass | I2 |
| The red flags over all | H2 |
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| Yes Ther's our place whatever flames | J2 |
| Those nearing clouds display | B |
| Tho' much they mean to footpath sneaks | S |
| And the wise who stop away | B |
Bernard O'dowd
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