The Warning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIJ| Beware The Israelite of old who tore | A |
| The lion in his path when poor and blind | B |
| He saw the blessed light of heaven no more | A |
| Shorn of his noble strength and forced to grind | B |
| In prison and at last led forth to be | C |
| A pander to Philistine revelry | C |
| - | |
| Upon the pillars of the temple laid | D |
| His desperate hands and in its overthrow | E |
| Destroyed himself and with him those who made | D |
| A cruel mockery of his sightless woe | E |
| The poor blind Slave the scoff and jest of all | F |
| Expired and thousands perished in the fall | F |
| - | |
| There is a poor blind Samson in this land | G |
| Shorn of his strength and bound in bonds of steel | H |
| Who may in some grim revel raise his hand | G |
| And shake the pillars of this Commonweal | H |
| Till the vast Temple of our liberties | I |
| A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies | J |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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