Official Piety Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDEDEFFGHBIIBBJ KKLLLCCMNOOCC| A PIOUS magistrate sound his praise throughout | A |
| The wondering churches Who shall henceforth doubt | A |
| That the long wished millennium draweth nigh | B |
| Sin in high places has become devout | A |
| Tithes mint goes painful faced and prays its lie | B |
| Straight up to Heaven and calls it piety | C |
| The pirate watching from his bloody deck | D |
| The weltering galleon heavy with the gold | E |
| Of Acapulco holding death in check | D |
| While prayers are said brows crossed and beads are told | E |
| The robber kneeling where the wayside cross | F |
| On dark Abruzzo tells of life's dread loss | F |
| From his own carbine glancing still abroad | G |
| For some new victim offering thanks to God | H |
| Rome listening at her altars to the cry | B |
| Of midnight Murder while her hounds of hell | I |
| Scour France from baptized cannon and holy bell | I |
| And thousand throated priesthood loud and high | B |
| Pealing Te Deums to the shuddering sky | B |
| 'Thanks to the Lord who giveth victory ' | J |
| What prove these but that crime was ne'er so black | K |
| As ghostly cheer and pious thanks to lack | K |
| Satan is modest At Heaven's door he lays | L |
| His evil offspring and in Scriptural phrase | L |
| And saintly posture gives to God the praise | L |
| And honor of the monstrous progeny | C |
| What marvel then in our own time to see | C |
| His old devices smoothly acted o'er | M |
| Official piety locking fast the door | N |
| Of Hope against three million souls of men | O |
| Brothers God's children Christ's redeemed and then | O |
| With uprolled eyeballs and on bended knee | C |
| Whining a prayer for help to hide the key | C |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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