The Breaking Of Chains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C DD EEFF G HH IJC| Between the ringing of bells and the musical clang of chimes | A |
| I hear a sound like the breaking of chains all through these Christmas times | A |
| For the thought of the world is waking out of a slumber deep and long | B |
| And the race is beginning to understand how Right can master Wrong | B |
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| And the eyes of the world are opening wide and great are the truths they see | C |
| And the heart of the world is singing a song and its burden is 'Be free ' | - |
| Now the thought of the world and the wish of the world and the song of the world will make | D |
| A force so strong that the fetters forged for a million years must break | D |
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| Fetters of superstitious fear have bound the race to creeds | E |
| That hindered the upward march of man to the larger faith he needs | E |
| Fetters of greed and pride have made the race bow down to kings | F |
| But the pompous creed and the costly throne must yield to simpler things | F |
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| The thought of the world has climbed above old paths for centuries trod | G |
| And cloth and crown no longer mean the 'vested power of God ' | - |
| The race no longer bends beneath the weight of Adam's sin | H |
| But stands erect and knows itself the Maker's first of kin | H |
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| And the need of the world and the wish of the world and the song of the world I hear | I |
| All through the clanging and clashing of bells this Christmas time o' the year | J |
| And I hear a sound like the breaking of chains and it seems to say to me | C |
| In the voice of One who spoke of old 'The Truth shall make men free ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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