Elliott Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EDFGHGIJKJ LMLMNONP QRSRNJNJ TUTUVMVM WXWXYZYZ| Hands off thou tithe fat plunderer play | A |
| No trick of priestcraft here | B |
| Back puny lordling darest thou lay | A |
| A hand on Elliott's bier | B |
| Alive your rank and pomp as dust | C |
| Beneath his feet he trod | D |
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| He knew the locust swarm that cursed | E |
| The harvest fields of God | D |
| On these pale lips the smothered thought | F |
| Which England's millions feel | G |
| A fierce and fearful splendor caught | H |
| As from his forge the steel | G |
| Strong armed as Thor a shower of fire | I |
| His smitten anvil flung | J |
| God's curse Earth's wrong dumb Hunger's ire | K |
| He gave them all a tongue | J |
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| Then let the poor man's horny hands | L |
| Bear up the mighty dead | M |
| And labor's swart and stalwart bands | L |
| Behind as mourners tread | M |
| Leave cant and craft their baptized bounds | N |
| Leave rank its minster floor | O |
| Give England's green and daisied grounds | N |
| The poet of the poor | P |
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| Lay down upon his Sheaf's green verge | Q |
| That brave old heart of oak | R |
| With fitting dirge from sounding forge | S |
| And pall of furnace smoke | R |
| Where whirls the stone its dizzy rounds | N |
| And axe and sledge are swung | J |
| And timing to their stormy sounds | N |
| His stormy lays are sung | J |
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| There let the peasant's step be heard | T |
| The grinder chant his rhyme | U |
| Nor patron's praise nor dainty word | T |
| Befits the man or time | U |
| No soft lament nor dreamer's sigh | V |
| For him whose words were bread | M |
| The Runic rhyme and spell whereby | V |
| The foodless poor were fed | M |
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| Pile up the tombs of rank and pride | W |
| O England as thou wilt | X |
| With pomp to nameless worth denied | W |
| Emblazon titled guilt | X |
| No part or lot in these we claim | Y |
| But o'er the sounding wave | Z |
| A common right to Elliott's name | Y |
| A freehold in his grave | Z |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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