Awakened! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNOPQKR STU VMKK WKXYZOKA2| Slowly the People waken they have been | A |
| Like weary soldiers sleeping in their tents | B |
| While traitors tiptoed through the silent camp | C |
| Intent on plunder Suddenly a sound | D |
| A careless movement of too bold a thief | E |
| Starts one dull sleeper then another stirs | F |
| A third cries out a warning and at last | G |
| The people are awake Oh when as one | H |
| The many rise united and alert | I |
| With Justice for their motto they reflect | J |
| The mighty force of God's Omnipotence | K |
| And nothing stands before them Lusty Greed | L |
| Tyrannical Corruption long in power | M |
| And smirking Cant whose right hand robs and slays | K |
| So that the left may dower Church and School | N |
| Monopoly whose mandate took from Toil | O |
| The Mother Earth that Idleness might loll | P |
| And breed the Monster of Colossal Wealth | Q |
| All these must fall before the gathering Force | K |
| Of public indignation That old strife | R |
| Which marks the progress of each century | S |
| The war of Right with Might is on once more | T |
| And shame to him who does not take his stand | U |
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| This is the weightiest moment of all time | V |
| And on the issues of the present hour | M |
| A nation's honour and a country's peace | K |
| A People's future ay a World's depends | K |
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| Until the vital questions of the day | W |
| Are solved and settled and the spendthrift thieves | K |
| Who rob the coffers of the saving poor | X |
| Are led from fashion's feasts to prison fare | Y |
| And taught the saving grace of honest work | Z |
| Till Labour claims the privilege of toil | O |
| And toil the proceeds of its labour shares | K |
| Let no man sleep let no man dare to sleep | A2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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