The Procession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEE FFGHII JJKKEELLMM NOMMAAEE| The legislators pass along | A |
| A solemn self important throng | A |
| Just raised from the common mass | B |
| They feel themselves another class | B |
| But let them in the sunshine play | C |
| For every dog must have his day | C |
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| There moves the law's close wedged band | D |
| The scourge and terror of the land | D |
| Pandora's box replete with ills | E |
| Not half so baleful as their quills | E |
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| The sons of Galen ghastly crew | F |
| Next pass in horrible review | F |
| Arm'd with each instrument of death | G |
| To sap the citadel of Health | H |
| Ten thousand times ten thousand fall | I |
| And physic's monster gulps down all | I |
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| Bellona's sons a num'rous train | J |
| now darken all the dusky plain | J |
| War their amusement Death their trade | K |
| And the one sin to be afraid | K |
| They're but another dire disease | E |
| The soul from prison to release | E |
| And man forlorn as well may be | L |
| A prey to steel as malady | L |
| Explore he must the mortal road | M |
| The only diff'rence is the mode | M |
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| The men in black bring up the rear | N |
| More warm to preach than folks to hear | O |
| Each points to his own fav'rite road | M |
| As leading to the blest abode | M |
| Proclaiming loud that all are wrong | A |
| Who don't around his banners throng | A |
| Till all confounded FAITH retires | E |
| And frighten'd CHARITY expires | E |
Henry Livingston Jr.
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