A Reformer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLKLMEME NOPOEJEJ ODQDDRDR ESETUDUD VWOWXYZYWhen I was young my heart elate | A |
With ardent notions warm | B |
I thirsted to inaugurate | C |
A spirit of reform | B |
The universe was all awry | D |
Philosophy despite | E |
And mundane things disjointed I | D |
Was bound to set aright | E |
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My mind conceived a million plans | F |
For Hope was brave and strong | G |
But dared not with unaided hands | H |
Combat a giant wrong | G |
So with caress I sought to coax | I |
Those who had humored me | J |
In infancy the dear old folks | I |
And gain their sympathy | J |
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But quarreling with extant laws | K |
They would have deemed a shame | L |
Who clung to error just because | K |
Their fathers did the same | L |
I sought in Pleasure's gilded halls | M |
Where grace and beauty stirred | E |
At revelry's impetuous calls | M |
To make my projects heard | E |
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Then turned to stately palaces | N |
Of luxury and ease | O |
Where wealth's absorbing object was | P |
The master's whim to please | O |
And spoke of evils unredressed | E |
Of danger yet to be | J |
They only answered like the rest | E |
But what is that to me | J |
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And even pious devotees | O |
Whom sacred walls immure | D |
Condemned me as by feeble praise | Q |
What more could I endure | D |
Down by the stream so pure and clear | D |
That sunbeams paused to drink | R |
In loneliness and grief sincere | D |
I pressed its grassy brink | R |
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Thick darkness seemed to veil the day | E |
Beyond a realm of tears | S |
Utopia's land of promise lay | E |
And not till later years | T |
I learned this lesson that to win | U |
Results from labor sure | D |
Reformers always must begin | U |
Among the lowly poor | D |
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For they whose lot privation is | V |
And whose delights are few | W |
Whose aggregate of miseries | O |
Is want of something new | W |
The measure of whose happiness | X |
Is but an empty cup | Y |
For every novelty will press | Z |
Alert to fill it up | Y |
Hattie Howard
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