Vive Anarchy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDDBAAEBBEFFE GGHBBHDDH IIBAABJJB BBKBBKDDK AABLLBDDB BBBBBBDDB| With the lifting of the curtain | A |
| Distance dim but grimly certain | A |
| Breaks my vision of a city populous and great | B |
| To my senses sorrow sated | C |
| Senses sad and satiated Faintly comes the thunder peal of treasured wrong and hate | B |
| Broken down | D |
| Beaten down | D |
| By awakened people and the iron arm of Fate | B |
| Pallid forms by famine shrunken | A |
| Helots harlots ribald drunken | A |
| Wine and blood wet onward thro' the torchlit highways sweep | E |
| Through a city disunited | B |
| Through a city flame ignited | B |
| To the sound of song and trumpet and the cannon's deep | E |
| Distant boom | F |
| Through the gloom | F |
| While the fire fiends madly leaps from tower to temple steep | E |
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| Reinforced from slum and alley | G |
| By this wild and weird reveille | G |
| Pours the army of the people where their banners drape | H |
| In a city barricaded | B |
| In a city fusilladed | B |
| By the deadly rifle and the Gatling and the grape | H |
| Crashing down | D |
| Smashing down | D |
| Lanes and alleys filthy and the foul abode of rape | H |
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| Tyrants flee and cowards falter | I |
| For a lamp post and a halter | I |
| Wait for every tyrant at the corner of the street | B |
| In the hour of retribution | A |
| In the night of revolution | A |
| When on common ground the tyrant and the helot meet | B |
| Endless wrongs | J |
| Countless wrongs | J |
| Burning in the helot's bosom fanned to fever heat | B |
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| Let the tyrant beg no pity | B |
| His the palace his the city | B |
| His the silken raiment and the costly food and wine | K |
| Ours the forms emaciated | B |
| Of the women violated | B |
| Ours the endless torture in the workshop and the mine | K |
| Hunted down | D |
| Hounded down | D |
| To the level of the felon and the concubine | K |
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| By our women fever stricken | A |
| Where the foetid odours thicken | A |
| In the homes of hunger where the children cry for bread | B |
| By your soulless apathetic | L |
| Scorning of our wrongs pathetic | L |
| By the seas of blood and tears by generations shed | B |
| Stealing down | D |
| Streaming down | D |
| Now we ask with smoking rifle vengeance on your head | B |
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| Marching on with footsteps steady | B |
| Shotted guns and bayonets ready | B |
| Goes the army of the people in the days to be | B |
| Through a city barricaded | B |
| Through a city fusilladed | B |
| Where the discontented masses struggle to be free | B |
| Breaking down | D |
| Beating down | D |
| Wrongs of ages to the song of Long Live Anarchy | B |
Edwin James Brady
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