An Imperfect Revolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCCC CCDCCEFE GHIJKDLD CCMCNEOO PCCCMOQO| They crowded weeping from the teacher's house | A |
| Crying aloud their fear at what he taught | B |
| Old men and young men wives and maids unwed | C |
| And children screaming in the crowds unsought | C |
| Some to their temples with accustomed feet | C |
| Bent as the oxen go beneath the rod | C |
| To fling themselves before some pictured saint | C |
| Alas God help us if there is no God | C |
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| Some to the bed side of their dying kind | C |
| To clasp with arms afraid to loose their hold | C |
| Some to a church yard falling on a grave | D |
| To kiss the carven name with lips as cold | C |
| Some watched from break of day into the night | C |
| The flash of birds the bloom of flower and tree | E |
| The whirling worlds that glimmer in the dark | F |
| All said God help us if no God there be | E |
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| Some hid in caves and chattered mad with fear | G |
| At the uprising of the patient poor | H |
| He suffers with you no more could they say | I |
| Thus lock with keys of Heaven their bonds secure | J |
| Some called their dead and then remembering fell | K |
| Abusing death and cursed the wormy grave | D |
| And wept for their long hoped for Paradise | L |
| God help us if there be no God to save | D |
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| And others sought for right and found it not | C |
| And seeking duty found that it was dead | C |
| Blamed their long blameless lives and vowed no more | M |
| To sacrifice for Might is right they said | C |
| And pleasure leaping in the streets with sin | N |
| Caroused through many days till wearily | E |
| She tired and met with death in bitter pain | O |
| Alas God help us if no God we gain | O |
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| A few rose up and speaking O be strong | P |
| Were answered There's no reason for your right | C |
| But many crept in thankfulness for rest | C |
| Into the river's darkness out of sight | C |
| And others with their limbs deformed or sore | M |
| Seared flesh shrieked out their patient years of pain | O |
| Crying to Death for their lost plains of Heaven | Q |
| Alas God help us if no God we gain | O |
Dora Sigerson Shorter
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