What I Have Seen #5 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DED FF GHG II JKJKLL| I saw a Christian a temperance man | A |
| Casting his ballot one day at the polls | B |
| One who believes he does what he can | A |
| Toward the reclaiming and saving of souls | B |
| And may be he does may be he does | C |
| I don't say he doesn't but may be he does | C |
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| I saw his candidate sipping his beer | D |
| Wiping his moustache and lapping his jaws | E |
| And I said to myself 'It's decidedly queer | D |
| If this is the man that should help make our laws ' | - |
| But may be he is may be he is | F |
| I won't say it outright but may be he is | F |
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| I saw an old drunkard fall in the street | G |
| I saw my Christian man mournfully pass | H |
| And mournfully say to the sot at his feet | G |
| 'I have done what I could for such wrecks but alas ' | - |
| Well may be he had may be he had | I |
| I don't say he hadn't but may be he had | I |
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| I know a party that's forming to day | J |
| Made out of men that are loyal and brave | K |
| They will sweep liquor taxes and tariffs away | J |
| For they never will vote for a drinking old knave | K |
| You see if they do you see if they do | L |
| I don't say I know but you see if they do | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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