A Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DADAEFEF GHGHIJIJ EKEKELE| My soul beheld a vision of the Master | A |
| Methought He stood with grieved and questioning eyes | B |
| Where Freedom drove its chariot to disaster | A |
| And toilers heard unheeding toilers' cries | B |
| Where man withheld God's bounties from his neighbour | A |
| And fertile fields were sterilised by greed | C |
| Where Labour's hand was lifted against labour | A |
| And suffering serfs to despots turned when freed | C |
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| Majestic rose tall steeple after steeple | D |
| Imperious bells called worshippers to prayer | A |
| But as they passed the faces of the people | D |
| Were marred by envy anger and despair | A |
| 'Christ the Redeemer of the world has risen | E |
| Peace and good will ' so rang the major strain | F |
| But forth from sweat shops tenement and prison | E |
| Wailed minor protests redolent with pain | F |
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| Methought about the Master all unseeing | G |
| Fought desperate hosts of striking clan with clan | H |
| Their primal purpose meant for labour's freeing | G |
| Sunk in vindictive hate of man for man | H |
| Pretentious Wealth in unearned robes of beauty | I |
| Flung Want a pittance from her bulging purse | J |
| While ill paid Toil went on dull rounds of duty | I |
| Hell in her heart and on her lips a curse | J |
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| Then spoke the Christ so wondrous was my vision | E |
| Deep deep His voice with sorrow's cadence fraught | K |
| 'This world to day would be a realm elysian | E |
| Had my disciples lived the love I taught | K |
| Un Christlike is the Christian creed men fashion | E |
| Who kneel to worship and who rise to slay | L |
| Profane pretenders of my holy Passion | E |
| Ye nail Me newly to the cross each day ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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