King Cotton. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED FGHG IJKJ LMNO BKPK NQRQ NSTS OUVU WKXK YZA2Z| King Cotton looks from his window | A |
| Towards the westering sun | B |
| And he marks with an anguished horror | C |
| That his race is almost run | B |
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| His form is thin and shrunken | B |
| His cheek is pale and wan | D |
| And the lines of care on his furrowed brow | E |
| Are dread to look upon | D |
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| But yesterday a monarch | F |
| In the flush of his pomp and pride | G |
| And not content with his own broad lands | H |
| He would rule the world beside | G |
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| He built him a stately palace | I |
| With gold from beyond the sea | J |
| And he laid with care the corner stone | K |
| And he called it Slavery | J |
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| He summoned an army with banners | L |
| To keep his foes at bay | M |
| And gazing with pride on his palace walls | N |
| He said They will stand for aye | O |
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| But the palace walls are shrunken | B |
| And partly overthrown | K |
| And the storms of war in their violence | P |
| Have loosened the corner stone | K |
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| Now Famine stalks through the palace halls | N |
| With her gaunt and pallid train | Q |
| You can hear the cries of famished men | R |
| As they cry for bread in vain | Q |
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| The king can see from his palace walls | N |
| A land by his pride betrayed | S |
| Thousands of mothers and wives bereft | T |
| Thousands of graves new made | S |
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| And he seems to see in the lowering sky | O |
| The shape of a flaming sword | U |
| Whereon he reads with a sinking heart | V |
| The anger of the Lord | U |
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| God speed the time when the guilty king | W |
| Shall be hurled from his blood stained throne | K |
| And the palace of Wrong shall crumble to dust | X |
| With its boasted corner stone | K |
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| A temple of Freedom shall rise instead | Y |
| On the desecrated site | Z |
| And within its shelter alike shall stand | A2 |
| The black man and the white | Z |
Horatio Alger, Jr.
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