Protest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD BEBEBE BFBFBF GHGHGH| Oh I am weary weary weary | A |
| Of Pan and oaten quills | B |
| And little songs that from the dictionary | A |
| Learn lore of streams and hills | B |
| Of studied laughter mocking what is merry | A |
| And calculated thrills | B |
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| Are we grown old and past the time of singing | C |
| Is ardor quenched in art | D |
| Till art is but a formal figure bringing | C |
| A money measured heart | D |
| Procrustean cut and with old echoes ringing | C |
| Its bells about the mart | D |
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| The race moves on and leaves no wildernesses | B |
| Where rugged voices cry | E |
| It reads its prayer and with set phrase it blesses | B |
| The souls of men who die | E |
| And step by even step its rank progresses | B |
| An army marshalled by | E |
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| If it be better so that Babel noises | B |
| Losing all course and ken | F |
| And grief that wails and gladness that rejoices | B |
| Should never wake again | F |
| To shock a world of modulated voices | B |
| And mediocre men | F |
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| Then he is blest who wears the painted feather | G |
| And may not turn about | H |
| To dusks when muses romped the dewy heather | G |
| In unrestricted rout | H |
| And dawns when if the stars had sung together | G |
| The sons of God would shout | H |
John Charles Mcneill
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