A Reformer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLKLMEME NOPOEJEJ ODQDDRDR ESETUDUD VWOWXYZY

When I was young my heart elateA
With ardent notions warmB
I thirsted to inaugurateC
A spirit of reformB
The universe was all awryD
Philosophy despiteE
And mundane things disjointed ID
Was bound to set arightE
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My mind conceived a million plansF
For Hope was brave and strongG
But dared not with unaided handsH
Combat a giant wrongG
So with caress I sought to coaxI
Those who had humored meJ
In infancy the dear old folksI
And gain their sympathyJ
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But quarreling with extant lawsK
They would have deemed a shameL
Who clung to error just becauseK
Their fathers did the sameL
I sought in Pleasure's gilded hallsM
Where grace and beauty stirredE
At revelry's impetuous callsM
To make my projects heardE
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Then turned to stately palacesN
Of luxury and easeO
Where wealth's absorbing object wasP
The master's whim to pleaseO
And spoke of evils unredressedE
Of danger yet to beJ
They only answered like the restE
But what is that to meJ
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And even pious devoteesO
Whom sacred walls immureD
Condemned me as by feeble praiseQ
What more could I endureD
Down by the stream so pure and clearD
That sunbeams paused to drinkR
In loneliness and grief sincereD
I pressed its grassy brinkR
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Thick darkness seemed to veil the dayE
Beyond a realm of tearsS
Utopia's land of promise layE
And not till later yearsT
I learned this lesson that to winU
Results from labor sureD
Reformers always must beginU
Among the lowly poorD
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For they whose lot privation isV
And whose delights are fewW
Whose aggregate of miseriesO
Is want of something newW
The measure of whose happinessX
Is but an empty cupY
For every novelty will pressZ
Alert to fill it upY

Hattie Howard



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