The Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGHGIFJFKLML LNANOPQQFNRNSTST| Men and boys O fathers brothers | A |
| Burst these fetters round you bound | B |
| Women sisters wives and mothers | A |
| Lift your faces from the ground | B |
| O Democracy O People | C |
| East and West and North and South | D |
| Rise together one for ever | E |
| Strike this Crime upon the mouth | D |
| Bid them not the men who loved you | F |
| Those who fought for you and died | G |
| Scorn you that you broke a small Crime | H |
| Left a great Crime pass in pride | G |
| England France the played out countries | I |
| Let them reek there in their stew | F |
| Let their past rot out their present | J |
| But the Future is with you | F |
| O America O first born | K |
| Of the age that yet shall be | L |
| Where all men shall be as one man | M |
| Noble faithful fearless free | L |
| O America O paramour | L |
| Of the foul slave owner Pelf | N |
| You who saved from slavery others | A |
| Now from slavery save yourself | N |
| Save yourself though anguish shaken | O |
| You cry out and bow your head | P |
| Crying 'Why am I forsaken ' | Q |
| Crying 'It is finish d ' | Q |
| Save yourself no God will save you | F |
| Not one angel can he give | N |
| They and He are dead and vanished | R |
| And 'tis you 'tis you must live | N |
| Risen again fire tried victorious | S |
| From the grave of Crime down hurled | T |
| Peerless pure serene and glorious | S |
| Wield the sceptre of the world | T |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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