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