A Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DADAEFEF GHGHIJIJ EKEKELEMy 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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