The Man Of The Nation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDAD EFEF GHDH IJKJ LMNM| Yonder the band is playing | A |
| And the fine young people walk | B |
| They are envying each other and talking | A |
| Their pretty empty talk | B |
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| There in the shade on the outskirts | C |
| Stretched on the grass I see | D |
| A man with a slouch hat smoking | A |
| That is the man for me | D |
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| That is the Man of the Nation | E |
| He works and much endures | F |
| When all the rest is rotten | E |
| He rises and cuts and cures | F |
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| He's the soldier of the Crimea | G |
| Fighting to honour fools | H |
| He's the grappler and strangler of Lee | D |
| Lord of the terrible tools | H |
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| He's in all the conquered nations | I |
| That have won their own at last | J |
| And in all that yet shall win it | K |
| And the world by him goes past | J |
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| O strong sly world this nameless | L |
| Still much enduring Man | M |
| Is the hand of God that shall clutch you | N |
| For all you have done or can | M |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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