Proletaria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFF HFHF IJIJ KFKF LFLF MNMN NONP QRQR DSDS TUTU VCVC WFDF XFXF YZA2Z B2C2B2C2 FFFF WD2DD2 FFFF CJCJ FFFE2 YJYJ| THE SUNNY rounds of Earth contain | A |
| An obverse to its Day | B |
| Our fertile Vagrancy s domain | A |
| Wan Proletaria | C |
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| From pole to pole of Poverty | D |
| We stumble through the years | E |
| With hazy lanterned Memory | D |
| And Hope that never nears | E |
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| Wherever Plenty s crop invites | F |
| Our pitiful brigades | G |
| Lurk cannoneers of Vested Rights | F |
| Juristic ambuscades | F |
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| And here hangs Rent that squalid cage | H |
| Within which Mammon thrusts | F |
| Bound with the fetter of a wage | H |
| The helots of his lusts | F |
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| With palsied Doubt as guide we wind | I |
| Among the lanes of Need | J |
| Where meagre Hungers scouting find | I |
| But slavered baits of Greed | J |
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| The wet lipped Lamias of Caste | K |
| Awaiting our advance | F |
| Our choicest squadrons fealty blast | K |
| With magic smile and glance | F |
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| Delilah limbed temptations flit | L |
| Among our drowsy rows | F |
| And on our willing captains fit | L |
| The badges of our foes | F |
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| What wonder sometimes if in stealth | M |
| Our starker outposts wait | N |
| And in the prowling eyes of Wealth | M |
| Dash vitriol of Hate | N |
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| Or if our Samsons ere too late | N |
| Their treasons should make good | O |
| By whelming in the temple s fate | N |
| Their viper owners brood | P |
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| Our polyandrous dam has borne | Q |
| To Satan and to God | R |
| The hordes of Night the clans of Morn | Q |
| That through our valleys plod | R |
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| Ah motherhood of misery | D |
| For Christ child as for pest | S |
| The greater her fertility | D |
| The drier grows her breast | S |
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| Too many linger on the track | T |
| A few outstrip the time | U |
| Some God has tattooed yellow black | T |
| And some disguised with crime | U |
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| Art s living archives here abound | V |
| Carraras of Despair | C |
| And those weird masks of Sight and Sound | V |
| The Tragic Muses wear | C |
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| Tho blind and dull tis we supply | W |
| The Painter s dazzling dreams | F |
| The rolling flood of Poetry | D |
| From our dumb chaos streams | F |
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| Nay when your world is over tired | X |
| And Genius comatose | F |
| Our race by Nemesis inspired | X |
| Old Order overthrows | F |
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| With earthquake life we thrill your land | Y |
| Refill the cruse of Art | Z |
| Revitalize spent Wisdom and | A2 |
| Resume our weary part | Z |
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| The palace of successful Guilt | B2 |
| Is mortared with our shame | C2 |
| On hecatombs of Us are built | B2 |
| The soaring towers of Fame | C2 |
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| We are the gnomes of Titan works | F |
| Whose throbbings never cease | F |
| Our unregarded signet lurks | F |
| On every masterpiece | F |
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| The floating isles that shuttling tie | W |
| All peoples into one | D2 |
| By adept steermen s sorcery | D |
| Of magnet steam and sun | D2 |
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| Religion s dolmens Sphinxes spires | F |
| Her Biblic armouries | F |
| The helot lightning of the wires | F |
| That mesh your lands and seas | F |
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| The viaducts tween Near and Far | C |
| Whereon o er range and mead | J |
| Bacchantic Trade s triumphant car | C |
| And iron tigers speed | J |
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| The modern steely crops that rise | F |
| Where technic Jasons sow | F |
| All these but feebly symbolize | F |
| The largesse we bestow | E2 |
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| And our reward In this wan land | Y |
| In clientage of Greed | J |
| Despised polluted maimed and banned | Y |
| To wander and to breed | J |
Bernard O'dowd
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