The Temperance Movement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDACCEFGFGHH| A POWER is stirring a broad light has shone | A |
| Amid the nation s in the wilderness | B |
| Of the world s social horror and distress | C |
| Heralding temperance as the Baptist John | D |
| Announced the Christ Amazed upon her throne | A |
| Built up of skulls that were in life not less | C |
| Than temples of great souls behold Excess | C |
| Blinks in its rays and feels her empire gone | E |
| And Ignorance and Crime each brutal vice | F |
| That brands the brow with shame and steels the heart | G |
| Are starting from their lairs in human sties | F |
| Like felons scared and gathering to depart | G |
| Even as the fiend gods of the pagan earth | H |
| Trooped hell ward at the Babe of Bethlehem s birth | H |
Charles Harpur
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