Communism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IDIDJDJD GKGKJGJG| When my blood flows calm as a purling river | A |
| When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway | B |
| It is then that I vow we must part for ever | A |
| That I will forget you and put you away | B |
| Out of my life as a dream is banished | C |
| Out of the mind when the dreamer awakes | D |
| That I know it will be when the spell has vanished | C |
| Better for both of our sakes | D |
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| When the court of the mind is ruled by Reason | E |
| I know it wiser for us to part | F |
| But Love is a spy who is plotting treason | E |
| In league with that warm red rebel the Heart | F |
| They whisper to me that the King is cruel | G |
| That his reign is wicked his law a sin | H |
| And every word they utter is fuel | G |
| To the flame that smoulders within | H |
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| And on nights like this when my blood runs riot | I |
| With the fever of youth and its mad desires | D |
| When my brain in vain bids my heart be quiet | I |
| When my breast seems the centre of lava fires | D |
| Oh then is when most I miss you | J |
| And I swear by the stars and my soul and say | D |
| That I will have you and hold you and kiss you | J |
| Though the whole world stands in the way | D |
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| And like Communists as mad as disloyal | G |
| My fierce emotions roam out of their lair | K |
| They hate King Reason for being royal | G |
| They would fire his castle and burn him there | K |
| O Love They would clasp you and crush you and kill you | J |
| In the insurrection of uncontrol | G |
| Across the miles does this wild war thrill you | J |
| That is raging in my soul | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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