The Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHIEJKL MNOAAPHAA QARASTUVALP AWXAAYAAZ A2B2C2DAD2E2F2G2H2 AB AI2J2J2I2I2J2J2I2 EK2AEK2A| I dreamed a Voice of one God authorised | A |
| Cried loudly thro the world Disarm Disarm | B |
| And there was consernation in the camps | C |
| And men who strutted under braid and lace | D |
| Beat on their medalled breasts and wailed | A |
| Undone | E |
| The word was echoed from a thousand hills | F |
| And shop and mill and factory and forge | G |
| Where throve the awful industries of death | H |
| Hushed into silence Scrawled upon the doors | I |
| The passer read Peace bids her children | E |
| Starve | J |
| But foolish women clasped their little sons | K |
| And wept for joy not reasoning like men | L |
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| Again the Voice commanded Now go forth | M |
| And build a world for Progress and for Peace | N |
| This world had waited since the earth was | O |
| Shaped | A |
| But men were fighting and they could not | A |
| Toil | P |
| The needs of life outnumbered needs of death | H |
| Leave death with God Go forth I say and | A |
| Build | A |
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| And then a sudden comprehensive joy | Q |
| Shone in the eyes of men and one who thought | A |
| Only of conquests and of victories | R |
| Woke from his gloomy reverie and cried | A |
| Ay come and build I challenge all to try | S |
| And I will make a world more beautiful | T |
| Then Eden was before the serpent came | U |
| And like a running flame on western wilds | V |
| Ambition spread from mind to listening mind | A |
| And lo the looms were busy once again | L |
| And all the earth resounded with men s toil | P |
| - | |
| Vast palaces of Science graced the world | A |
| Their banquet tables spread with feasts of truth | W |
| For all who hungered Music kissed the air | X |
| Once rent with boom of cannons Statues gleamed | A |
| From wooded ways where ambushed armies hid | A |
| In times of old The sea and air were gay | Y |
| With shining sails that soared from land to land | A |
| A universal language of the world | A |
| Made nations kin and poverty was known | Z |
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| But as a word marked obsolete like war | A2 |
| The arts were kindled with celestial fire | B2 |
| New poets sang so Homer s fame grew dim | C2 |
| And brush and chisel gave the wondering race | D |
| Sublimer treasures than old Greece displayed | A |
| Men differed still fierce argument arose | D2 |
| For men are human in this human sphere | E2 |
| But unarmed Arbitration stood between | F2 |
| And Reason settled in a hundred hours | G2 |
| What War disputed for a hundred years | H2 |
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| Oh that a Voice of one God authorised | A |
| Might cry to all mankind Disarm Disarm | B |
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| Remembered | A |
| His art was loving Eres set his sign | I2 |
| Upon that youthful forehead and he drew | J2 |
| The hearts of women as the sun draws dew | J2 |
| Love feeds love s thirst as wine feeds love of wine | I2 |
| Nor is there any potion from the vine | I2 |
| Which makes men drunken like the subtle brew | J2 |
| Of kisses crushed by kisses and he grew | J2 |
| Inebriated with that draught divine | I2 |
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| Yet in his sober moments when the sun | E |
| Of radiant summer paled to lonely fall | K2 |
| And passion s sea had grown an ebbing tide | A |
| From out the many Memory singled one | E |
| Full cup that seemed the sweetest of them all | K2 |
| The warm red mouth that mocked him and denied | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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