The Poor Voter On Election Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHIHJKJK BFBFJLJLMHMH| THE proudest now is but my peer | A |
| The highest not more high | B |
| To day of all the weary year | A |
| A king of men am I | B |
| To day alike are great and small | C |
| The nameless and the known | D |
| My palace is the people's hall | C |
| The ballot box my throne | D |
| Who serves to day upon the list | E |
| Beside the served shall stand | F |
| Alike the brown and wrinkled fist | E |
| The gloved and dainty hand | F |
| The rich is level with the poor | G |
| The weak is strong to day | H |
| And sleekest broadcloth counts no more | I |
| Than homespun frock of gray | H |
| To day let pomp and vain pretence | J |
| My stubborn right abide | K |
| I set a plain man's common sense | J |
| Against the pedant's pride | K |
| To day shall simple manhood try | B |
| The strength of gold and land | F |
| The wide world has not wealth to buy | B |
| The power in my right hand | F |
| While there's a grief to seek redress | J |
| Or balance to adjust | L |
| Where weighs our living manhood less | J |
| Than Mammon's vilest dust | L |
| While there's a right to need my vote | M |
| A wrong to sweep away | H |
| Up clouted knee and ragged coat | M |
| A man's a man to day | H |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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