A Cry For Poland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIHIHJDKD LDLDABAB| HOW long shall injustice prevail | A |
| How long shall the weak rue the strong | B |
| The children of Poland bewail | A |
| The yoke of the Russian How long | B |
| Lo one generation goes by | C |
| And another succeeds as of old | D |
| Yet no liberation is nigh | C |
| Yet theirs are afflictions untold | D |
| The hero whose lustre and worth | E |
| Might add to his nation's renown | F |
| Still seeks at a far foreign hearth | G |
| The shelter denied at his own | H |
| No star left her home to illume | I |
| The mother heart broken and lorn | H |
| The mother looks round on her gloom | I |
| And curses the hour she was born | H |
| In sight of the husband or sire | J |
| The wife or the daughter's defiled | D |
| And to quench a demoniac ire | K |
| Both mercy and love are reviled | D |
| The smoke of the blood of the wise | L |
| The holy heroic and good | D |
| Ascends from the earth to the skies | L |
| And still crave the blood hounds for blood | D |
| How long shall injustice prevail | A |
| And insult and murder and wrong | B |
| Cause high hearted Poland to wail | A |
| Thou God of the helpless how long | B |
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Joseph Skipsey
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