To A Politician Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ AKAK LMLMThere was a moment when of you | A |
A splendid hope I had to tell | B |
Believing Here is one man who | A |
Will serve our waiting country well | B |
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I saw you sedulous and keen | C |
I heard the burning words you spoke | D |
It seemed that you were hard and clean | C |
And rapier sharp your every stroke | D |
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Then came success and in a night | E |
An impish thing you stood apart | F |
All empty handed for the fight | E |
With worse alas an empty heart | F |
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Success had spoiled you said your friends | G |
It was not so for naught was there | H |
To spoil but means to petty ends | G |
At last men saw you bleak and bare | H |
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In those who give you grudging aid | I |
These days may we the spirits see | J |
Who for the love of men would raid | I |
The strongholds of iniquity | J |
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Are these the heroes high and true | A |
Who seeing right with honest eyes | K |
Will risk their all in putting through | A |
Democracy's stern Enterprise | K |
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You had no wealth of love You failed | L |
For that Your heart may never cling | M |
To men upon their crosses nailed | L |
To brothers sadly travailing | M |
Edward Dyson
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