One-man-one-vote Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEEE CCCF GHGHONE MAN ONE VOTE You hear the people shouting | A |
The walls of Mammon tremble ere they fall | B |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE Is this a time for doubting | A |
The poets have been prophets after all | B |
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ONE MAN ONE VOTE The cry is growing stronger | C |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE It echoes o'er the wave | D |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE The Wealthy dead no longer | C |
Shall rule us through their children from the grave | D |
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ONE MAN ONE VOTE The knell of Retrogression | E |
The greatest triumph of the tongue and pen | E |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE The right of long possession | E |
Is right no longer in the minds of men | E |
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ONE MAN ONE VOTE There's lightning in the thunder | C |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE The reign of Greed is o'er | C |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE The cursed Vote of Plunder | C |
Shall rule the plundered slaves of earth no more | F |
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ONE MAN ONE VOTE We're waking from our slumbers | G |
ONE MAN ONE VOTE To rule the fields we farmed | H |
If thus we triumph with diminished numbers | G |
What will the triumph be when all are armed | H |
Henry Lawson
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