The Voices Of The People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG AACCEE| Oh I hear the people calling through the day time and the night time | A |
| They are calling they are crying for the coming of the right time | A |
| It behooves you men and women it behooves you to be heeding | B |
| For there lurks a note of menace underneath their plaintive pleading | B |
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| Let the land usurpers listen let the greedy hearted ponder | C |
| On the meaning of the murmur rising here and swelling yonder | C |
| Swelling louder waxing stronger like a storm fed stream that courses | D |
| Through the valleys down abysses growing gaining with new forces | E |
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| Day by day the river widens that great river of opinion | F |
| And its torrent beats and plunges at the base of greed's dominion | F |
| Though you dam it by oppression and fling golden bridges o'er it | G |
| Yet the day and hour advances when in fright you'll flee before it | G |
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| Yes I hear the people calling through the night time and the day time | A |
| Wretched toilers in life's autumn weary young ones in life's May time | A |
| They are crying they are calling for their share of work and pleasure | C |
| You are heaping high your coffers while you give them scanty measure | C |
| You have stolen God's wide acres just to glut your swollen purses | E |
| Oh restore them to His children ere their pleading turns to curses | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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