John Cabanis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDEFGAAHIJKLMNAL| Neither spite fellow citizens | A |
| Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness | A |
| And the lawlessness and waste | B |
| Under democracy's rule in Spoon River | C |
| Made me desert the party of law and order | C |
| And lead the liberal party | D |
| Fellow citizens I saw as one with second sight | E |
| That every man of the millions of men | F |
| Who give themselves to Freedom | G |
| And fail while Freedom fails | A |
| Enduring waste and lawlessness | A |
| And the rule of the weak and the blind | H |
| Dies in the hope of building earth | I |
| Like the coral insect for the temple | J |
| To stand on at the last | K |
| And I swear that Freedom will wage to the end | L |
| The war for making every soul | M |
| Wise and strong and as fit to rule | N |
| As Plato's lofty guardians | A |
| In a world republic girdled | L |
Edgar Lee Masters
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