Sic Semper Liberatoribus! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDCEF GHGHHCI HJHJJKK LMLMMNN OPOPPQQ RSTSSUU| March | A |
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| As one who feels the breathless nightmare grip | B |
| His heart strings and through visioned horrors fares | C |
| Now on a thin ledged chasm's rock crumbling lip | B |
| Now on a tottering pinnacle that dare | D |
| The front of heaven while always unawares | C |
| Weird monsters start above around beneath | E |
| Each glaring from some uglier mask of death | F |
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| So the White Czar imperial progress made | G |
| Through terror haunted days A shock a cry | H |
| Whose echoes ring the globe the spectre's laid | G |
| Hurled o'er the abyss see the crowned martyr lie | H |
| Resting in peace fear change and death gone by | H |
| Fit end for nightmare mist of blood and tears | C |
| Red climax to the slow abortive years | I |
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| The world draws breath one long deep shuddering sigh | H |
| At that which dullest brain prefigured clear | J |
| As swift sure bolt from thunder threatening sky | H |
| How heaven anointed humblest lots appear | J |
| Beside his glittering eminence of fear | J |
| His spiked crown sackcloth purple poisoned cates | K |
| His golden palace honey combed with hates | K |
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| Well is it done A most heroic plan | L |
| Which after myriad plots succeeds at last | M |
| In robbing of his life this poor old man | L |
| Whose sole offense his birthright has but passed | M |
| To fresher blood with younger strength recast | M |
| What men are these who clamoring to be free | N |
| Would bestialize the world to what they be | N |
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| Whose sons are they who made the snow wreathed head | O |
| Their frenzy's target In their Russian veins | P |
| What alien current urged on to smite him dead | O |
| Whose word had loosed a million Russian chains | P |
| What brutes were they for whom such speechless pains | P |
| So royally endured no human thrill | Q |
| Awoke in hearts drunk with the lust to kill | Q |
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| Not brutes No tiger of the wilderness | R |
| No jackal of the jungle bears such brand | S |
| As man's black heart who shrinks not to confess | T |
| The desperate deed of his deliberate hand | S |
| Our kind our kin have done this thing We stand | S |
| Bowed earthward red with shame to see such wrong | U |
| Prorogue Love's cause and Truth's God knows how long | U |
Emma Lazarus
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