Extempore Lines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLMN OPQPRSTS UVHVWXYX ZA2B2C2AB2D2B2| A MORNING crowns the Western hill | A |
| A day begins to reign | B |
| A sun awakes o er distant seas | C |
| Shall never sleep again | D |
| The world is growing old | E |
| And men are waxing wise | F |
| A mist has cleared a something falls | G |
| Like scales from off their eyes | F |
| - | |
| Too long the Dark of Ignorance | H |
| Has brooded on their way | I |
| Too long Oppression s stood before | J |
| Excluding light of day | I |
| But now they ve found the track | K |
| And now they ve seen the dawn | L |
| A beacon lamp is pointing on | M |
| Where stronger glows the morn | N |
| - | |
| Since Adam lived the mighty ones | O |
| Have ever ruled the weak | P |
| Since Noah s flood the fettered slave | Q |
| Has seldom dared to speak | P |
| Tis time a voice was heard | R |
| Tis time a voice was spoken | S |
| So in the chain of tyranny | T |
| A link or two be broken | S |
| - | |
| A tiny rill will swell a stream | U |
| A spark will cause a flame | V |
| And one man s burning eloquence | H |
| Has help d to do the same | V |
| And he will persevere | W |
| And soon that blaze must spread | X |
| Till to the corners of the earth | Y |
| Reflecting beams are shed | X |
| - | |
| The few will try to beat it down | Z |
| But can they stop the flood | A2 |
| Bind up the pinions of the light | B2 |
| Or check the will of God | C2 |
| And is it not His will | A |
| That deeply injured Right | B2 |
| Should overthrow the iron rule | D2 |
| And reign instead of Might | B2 |
Henry Kendall
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