A Politician Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON MPQRQ STUT VWKW RWFW XYWY OBZB| Leader no more be judged of us | A |
| Hailed Chief and loved of yore | B |
| Youth and the faith of youth cry out | C |
| Leader and Chief no more | B |
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| We dreamed a Prophet flushed with faith | D |
| Content to toil in pain | E |
| If that his sacrifice might be | F |
| Somehow his people's gain | E |
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| We saw a vision and our blood | G |
| Beat red and hot and strong | H |
| Lead us we cried to war against | I |
| Some foul embattled wrong | H |
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| We dreamed a Warrior whose sword | J |
| Was edged for sham and shame | K |
| We dreamed a Statesman far above | L |
| The vulgar lust for fame | K |
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| We were not cynics and we dreamed | M |
| A Man who made no truce | N |
| With lies nor ancient privilege | O |
| Nor old entrenched abuse | N |
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| We dreamed we dreamed Youth dreamed | M |
| a dream | P |
| And even you forgot | Q |
| Yourself one moment and dreamed too | R |
| Struck while your mood was hot | Q |
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| Struck three or four good blows and then | S |
| Turned back to easier things | T |
| The cheap applause the blatant mob | U |
| The praise of underlings | T |
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| Praise praise was ever man so filled | V |
| So avid still of praise | W |
| So hungry for the crowd's acclaim | K |
| The sycophantic phrase | W |
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| O you whom Greatness beckoned to | R |
| O swollen Littleness | W |
| Who turned from Immortality | F |
| To fawn upon Success | W |
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| O blind with love of self who led | X |
| Youth's vision to defeat | Y |
| Bawling and brawling for rewards | W |
| Loud in the common street | Y |
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| O you who were so quick to judge | O |
| Leader and loved of yore | B |
| Hear now the judgment of our youth | Z |
| Leader and Chief no more | B |
Don Marquis
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