The Lodge-room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE CADAGGHG ABIBGCGC JKLKABMB| Don't bring into the lodge room | A |
| Anger and spite and pride | B |
| Drop at the gate of the temple | C |
| The strife of the world outside | B |
| Forget all your cares and trials | D |
| Forget every selfish sorrow | E |
| And remember the cause you meet for | F |
| And haste ye the glad to morrow | E |
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| Drop at the gate of the temple | C |
| Envy and spite and gloom | A |
| Don't bring personal quarrels | D |
| And discord into the room | A |
| Forget the slights of a sister | G |
| Forget the wrongs of a brother | G |
| And remember the new commandment | H |
| That ye all love one another | G |
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| Bring your heart into the lodge room | A |
| But leave yourself outside | B |
| That is your personal feelings | I |
| Ambition vanity pride | B |
| Centre each thought and power | G |
| On the cause for which you assemble | C |
| Fetter the demon liquor | G |
| And make ye the traffic tremble | C |
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| Ay to fetter and to chain him | J |
| And cast him under our feet | K |
| This is the end we aim at | L |
| The object for which we meet | K |
| Then don't bring into the lodge room | A |
| Envy or strife or pride | B |
| Or aught that will mar our union | M |
| But leave them all outside | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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