The Crowing Of The Red Cock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DDDDEF DDDDGH DIDIJK LDLDMM NDODDD| Across the Eastern sky has glowed | A |
| The flicker of a blood red dawn | B |
| Once more the clarion cock has crowed | A |
| Once more the sword of Christ is drawn | B |
| A million burning rooftrees light | C |
| The world wide path of Israel's flight | C |
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| Where is the Hebrew's fatherland | D |
| The folk of Christ is sore bestead | D |
| The Son of Man is bruised and banned | D |
| Nor finds whereon to lay his head | D |
| His cup is gall his meat is tears | E |
| His passion lasts a thousand years | F |
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| Each crime that wakes in man the beast | D |
| Is visited upon his kind | D |
| The lust of mobs the greed of priest | D |
| The tyranny of kings combined | D |
| To root his seed from earth again | G |
| His record is one cry of pain | H |
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| When the long roll of Christian guilt | D |
| Against his sires and kin is known | I |
| The flood of tears the life blood spilt | D |
| The agony of ages shown | I |
| What oceans can the stain remove | J |
| From Christian law and Christian love | K |
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| Nay close the book not now not here | L |
| The hideous tale of sin narrate | D |
| Reechoing in the martyr's ear | L |
| Even he might nurse revengeful hate | D |
| Even he might turn in wrath sublime | M |
| With blood for blood and crime for crime | M |
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| Coward Not he who faces death | N |
| Who singly against worlds has fought | D |
| For what A name he may not breathe | O |
| For liberty of prayer and thought | D |
| The angry sword he will not whet | D |
| His nobler task is to forget | D |
Emma Lazarus
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