The World's Justice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFF GHIHJKJKFF LILIMAMANN OPOPMAMAII| If the sudden tidings came | A |
| That on some far foreign coast | B |
| Buried ages long from fame | A |
| Had been found a remnant lost | C |
| Of that hoary race who dwelt | D |
| By the golden Nile divine | E |
| Spake the Pharaoh's tongue and knelt | D |
| At the moon crowned Isis' shrine | E |
| How at reverend Egypt's feet | F |
| Pilgrims from all lands would meet | F |
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| If the sudden news were known | G |
| That anigh the desert place | H |
| Where once blossomed Babylon | I |
| Scions of a mighty race | H |
| Still survived of giant build | J |
| Huntsmen warriors priest and sage | K |
| Whose ancestral fame had filled | J |
| Trumpet tongued the earlier age | K |
| How at old Assyria's feet | F |
| Pilgrims from all lands would meet | F |
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| Yet when Egypt's self was young | L |
| And Assyria's bloom unworn | I |
| Ere the mythic Homer sung | L |
| Ere the gods of Greece were born | I |
| Lived the nation of one God | M |
| Priests of freedom sons of Shem | A |
| Never quelled by yoke or rod | M |
| Founders of Jerusalem | A |
| Is there one abides to day | N |
| Seeker of dead cities say | N |
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| Answer now as then THEY ARE | O |
| Scattered broadcast o'er the lands | P |
| Knit in spirit nigh and far | O |
| With indissoluble bands | P |
| Half the world adores their God | M |
| They the living law proclaim | A |
| And their guerdon is the rod | M |
| Stripes and scourgings death and shame | A |
| Still on Israel's head forlorn | I |
| Every nation heaps its scorn | I |
Emma Lazarus
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