The Mountain Laboured Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCDCEFEF GHGHIJIJ HKHKLKL MNMNOEOE PQPQRHR STSTUSUS DCBCVWVW EEAA| A patriot spake thus to an eager throng | A |
| 'Give me the power and I shall right each wrong | A |
| And Fortune smiling on our land shall look' | A |
| His name was COOK | A |
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| Lo I beheld throughout a continent | B |
| A nation wrestle with affairs of State | C |
| And patriotic cries wher'er I went | D |
| Poured forth alike from groundlings and the great | C |
| I heard man reason with his fellow man | E |
| From shore to shore rang out one mighty screech | F |
| As daily from a thousand platforms ran | E |
| Rivers of speech | F |
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| Consul and Senator keen combat waged | G |
| Doctor and Saint joined hotly in the fray | H |
| North South and West and East the battle raged | G |
| And ev'ry citizen had much to say | H |
| Bland politicians talked incessantly | I |
| It seemed a very battle of the gods | J |
| Though much they said appeared to me to be | I |
| Over the odds | J |
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| Then lo upon the great Election Day | H |
| The day appointed for the mighty test | K |
| Cab jinker motor car and humble dray | H |
| Hither and thither sped at the behest | K |
| Of rival statesmen whose bold streamers flared | L |
| On wall and hoarding You can guess the rest | K |
| 'Twere easy spared | L |
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| My wife remained at home to mend my socks | M |
| But forth went I to claim my sovereign right | N |
| To win my freedom at the ballot box | M |
| I got back home at twelve o'clock that night | N |
| Or was it two next morning I forget | O |
| But I had done my duty like a man | E |
| Helped in the noblest scheme man's fashioned yet | O |
| The Party Plan | E |
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| And then a solemn hush fell on the land | P |
| I was content considering my head | Q |
| Next Morning And behold on ev'ry hand | P |
| Expectancy and hope one plainly read | Q |
| Till through the land rang out the herald's voice | R |
| Telling the upshot of that mighty fray | H |
| 'Joseph is consul Citizens rejoice | R |
| 'Ip 'ip 'ooray ' | - |
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| Rejoice I did and my prophetic soul | S |
| Saw for my country happiness and peace | T |
| For he had reached at last the longed for goal | S |
| Now would our corn and oil and beer increase | T |
| What would it profit else this strike this pain | U |
| A mighty Nation shaken to its soul | S |
| Sans good result all hope 'twas very plain | U |
| Was up the pole | S |
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| Into the Hall of State I blithely went | D |
| Eager to hear the dignified debate | C |
| Grave reverend seigneurs in grave argument | B |
| Engaged discussing great affairs of State | C |
| Wise counsellors But stay What's here amiss | V |
| Are these the honoured makers of the Law | W |
| Now Heav'n defend our Party Plan for this | V |
| Is what I saw | W |
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| A yelping clamorous unruly clan | E |
| A small bald agitated snapping man | E |
| And as they raved his fist he fiercely shook | A |
| His name was COOK | A |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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