Songs For The People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH IJGJ KLML GNMN OMPM| Let me make the songs for the people | A |
| Songs for the old and young | B |
| Songs to stir like a battle cry | C |
| Wherever they are sung | B |
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| Not for the clashing of sabres | D |
| For carnage nor for strife | E |
| But songs to thrill the hearts of men | F |
| With more abundant life | E |
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| Let me make the songs for the weary | G |
| Amid life's fever and fret | H |
| Till hearts shall relax their tension | I |
| And careworn brows forget | H |
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| Let me sing for little children | I |
| Before their footsteps stray | J |
| Sweet anthems of love and duty | G |
| To float o'er life's highway | J |
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| I would sing for the poor and aged | K |
| When shadows dim their sight | L |
| Of the bright and restful mansions | M |
| Where there shall be no night | L |
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| Our world so worn and weary | G |
| Needs music pure and strong | N |
| To hush the jangle and discords | M |
| Of sorrow pain and wrong | N |
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| Music to soothe all its sorrow | O |
| Till war and crime shall cease | M |
| And the hearts of men grown tender | P |
| Girdle the world with peace | M |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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