Young Democracy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLM KNKN OPOP QFQF RSRS TFTF UVWV XFXF YFYF FZFZ YYYY A2YA2Y FYFY B2FKF YYYY C2FC2F D2KD2K KLKL KB2C2B2| HARK Young Democracy from sleep | A |
| Our careless sentries raps | B |
| A backwash from the Future s deep | A |
| Our Evil s foreland laps | B |
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| Unknown these Titans of our Night | C |
| Their New Creation make | D |
| Unseen they toil and love and fight | C |
| That glamoured Man may wake | D |
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| Knights errant of the human race | E |
| The Quixotes of to day | F |
| For man as man they claim a place | E |
| Prepare the tedious way | F |
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| They seek no dim eyed mob s applause | G |
| Deem base the titled name | H |
| And spurn for glory of their Cause | I |
| The tawdry nymphs of Fame | H |
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| No masks of ignorance or sin | J |
| Hide from them you or me | K |
| We re Man no colour shames our skin | J |
| No race or caste have we | K |
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| The prognathous Neanderthal | L |
| To them conceals the Bruce | M |
| They see Dan Aesop in the thrall | L |
| From swagmen Christ deduce | M |
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| Tho butt for lecher s ribaldry | K |
| And scarred by woman s scorn | N |
| In baby burdened girl they see | K |
| God motherhood forlorn | N |
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| With them to racial siredom glides | O |
| The savage we deprave | P |
| That eunuch brilliant Narses hides | O |
| A Spartacus that slave | P |
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| They Jesus find in manger waif | Q |
| In horse boys Shakespearehood | F |
| And earthquake Luthers nestling safe | Q |
| In German miner s brood | F |
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| The God that pulses everywhere | R |
| They know fills Satan s veins | S |
| No felon but they see Him there | R |
| Behind His mirror s stains | S |
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| Tis theirs Earth s charnel rooms to clear | T |
| And ruthless sweep away | F |
| The Lares and Penates dear | T |
| To man in his decay | F |
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| Their restless energy supplies | U |
| Munitions that will wreck | V |
| The keeps whence feudal enemies | W |
| Our free banditti check | V |
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| Their unrelenting wars they wage | X |
| These Furies of the Right | F |
| Where myriad Falsehood s legions rage | X |
| Artilleried by Might | F |
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| Where Fashion s stupid iron clamps | Y |
| Young Innovation s head | F |
| And Law the stalwart Present cramps | Y |
| In Past s Procrustes bed | F |
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| Where Pride of learning substance blood | F |
| Or prowess in the strife | Z |
| Exacts from teeming lowlihood | F |
| The lion s share of life | Z |
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| Where Gluttony would to the brutes | Y |
| Degrade his loose lipped gangs | Y |
| Where Tyranny his venom shoots | Y |
| From one or million fangs | Y |
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| Where Cruelty in Wisdom s mask | A2 |
| Piths fame from writhing beasts | Y |
| Where blest is racial Murder s task | A2 |
| By Christ s apostate priests | Y |
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| In Punic or in Persian fray | F |
| With Love s and Conscience foes | Y |
| Unadvertising Romans they | F |
| And Spartans free from pose | Y |
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| Abused as mad or traitors by | B2 |
| The trolls they would eject | F |
| Cold shouldered by wan Apathy | K |
| Of motives mean suspect | F |
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| Outcast from social gaieties | Y |
| Denied life s lilied grace | Y |
| They mount their hidden Calvaries | Y |
| To save the human race | Y |
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| The bowers of Art a few may know | C2 |
| A few wait highly placed | F |
| Most bear the hods of common woe | C2 |
| And some you call disgraced | F |
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| But whether in the mob or school | D2 |
| In church or poverty | K |
| They teach and live the Golden Rule | D2 |
| Of Young Democracy | K |
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| That culture joy and goodliness | K |
| Be th equal right of all | L |
| That Greed no more shall those oppress | K |
| Who by the wayside fall | L |
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| That each shall share what all men sow | K |
| That colour caste s a lie | B2 |
| That man is God however low | C2 |
| Is man however high | B2 |
Bernard O'dowd
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