Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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To The West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFEGG HIJIKK BLMNGG BIOIPP QRSTQQ

In an interview with Lawrence Barrett he saidA
The literature of the New World must look to the WestB
for its poetryC
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Not to the crowded EastD
Where in a well worn grooveE
Like the harnessed wheel of a great machineF
The trammelled mind must moveE
Where Thought must follow the fashion of ThoughtG
Or be counted vulgar and set at naughtG
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Not to the languid SouthH
Where the mariners of the brainI
Are lured by the Sirens of the SenseJ
And wrecked upon its mainI
Where Thought is rocked on the sweet wind's breathK
To a torpid sleep that ends in deathK
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But to the mighty WestB
That chosen realm of GodL
Where Nature reaches her hands to menM
And Freedom walks abroadN
Where mind is King and fashion is naughtG
There shall the New World look for thoughtG
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To the West the beautiful WestB
She shall look and not in vainI
For out of its broad and boundless storeO
Come muscle and nerve and brainI
Let the bards of the East and the South be dumbP
For out of the West shall the Poets comeP
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They shall come with souls as greatQ
As the cradle where they were rockedR
They shall come with brows that are touched with fireS
Like the gods with whom they have walkedT
They shall come from the West in royal stateQ
The Singers and Thinkers for whom we waitQ

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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