Hymn Of The Reformers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEF GGHH IIJJ HHHH DDII

By the bodies and minds and souls that rot in a common styA
In the city's offal holes where the dregs of its horrors lieA
By the prayers that bubble out but never ascend to GodB
We swear the tyrants of earth to rout with tongue and with pen and swordC
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By the child that sees the light where the pestilent air stagnatesD
And the woman worn and white who under the street lamp waitsD
By the horror of vice that thrives in the dens of the wretched poorE
We swear to strike when the time arrives for all that is good and pureF
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By the rights that were always ours the rights that we ne'er enjoyedG
And the gloomy cloud that lowers on the brows of the unemployedG
By the struggling mothers and wives and the girls on the streets of sinH
We swear to strike when the time arrives for our kind and our kith and kinH
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By our burning hate for men who rob us of ours by rightI
And banish to slum and stew the poor from the sun and lightI
And the hellborn law that drives the exile o'er sea to roamJ
We swear to strike when the time arrives for Happiness Hearth and HomeJ
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By the little of manhood left in a world of want and sinH
By the rift in the dark clouds reft where the light still struggles inH
By the love that scarce survives in a stream that is sluggish and thinH
We swear to work till the time arrives for ourselves and our kith and kinH
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The little love may dry in its stream that scarcely flowsD
The little of manhood die and the rift in the dark clouds closeD
And hope may vanish from earth and all that is pure and brightI
We swear to strike ere that time has birth with the whole of our gathered mightI

Henry Lawson



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