Liberty! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHDJKJLMKM DNONPPPPQPPRSPCP| 'LIBERTY ' Is that the cry then | A |
| We have heard it oft of yore | B |
| Once it had we think a meaning | C |
| Let us hear it now no more | B |
| We have read what history tells us | D |
| Of its heroes martyrs too | E |
| Doubtless they were very splendid | F |
| But they're not for me and you | E |
| There were Greeks who fought and perished | G |
| Won from Persians deathless graves | H |
| Had we lived then we're aware that | I |
| We'd have been those same Greeks' slaves | H |
| Then a Roman came who loved us | D |
| Caesar gave men tongues and swords | J |
| Crying 'Liberty ' they fought him | K |
| Cato and his wild beast lords | J |
| When he'd give a broader franchise | L |
| Lift the mangled nations bowed | M |
| Crying 'Liberty ' they killed him | K |
| Brutus and his cut throat crowd | M |
| We have read what history tells us | D |
| O the truthful memory clings | N |
| Tacitus the chartered liar | O |
| Gloating over poisoned kings | N |
| 'Liberty ' The stale cry echoes | P |
| Past smug homesteads tinsel thrones | P |
| Over smoking fields and hovels | P |
| Murdered peasants' bleaching bones | P |
| That's the cry that mocked us madly | Q |
| Toiling in our living graves | P |
| When hell mines sent up the chorus | P |
| 'Britons never shall be slaves ' | R |
| 'Liberty ' We care not for it | S |
| What we care for's food clothes homes | P |
| For our dear ones toiling waiting | C |
| For the time that never comes | P |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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