The Great Chicago Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJKLKMK NOEOPEQR STUTVWXW YIZA2SB2C2A2 D2TE2A2A2A2D2A2 F2A2G2A2ZG2H2L A2LE2C2CI2A2I2| The great Chicago Fire friends | A |
| Will never be forgot | B |
| In the history of Chicago | C |
| It will remain a darken spot | B |
| It was a dreadful horrid sight | D |
| To see that City in flames | E |
| But no human aid could save it | F |
| For all skill was tried in vain | G |
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| In the year of | H |
| In October on the th | I |
| The people in that City then | J |
| Was full of life and great | K |
| Less than four days it lay in ruins | L |
| That garden City so great | K |
| Lay smouldering in ashes | M |
| In a sad and pitiful state | K |
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| It was a sad sad scene indeed | N |
| To see the fire arise | O |
| And hear the crackling of the flames | E |
| As it almost reached the skies | O |
| And sadder still to hear the moans | P |
| Of people in the flames | E |
| Cry for help and none could get | Q |
| Ah die where they remained | R |
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| To see the people run for life | S |
| Up and down the blazing streets | T |
| To find then their escape cut off | U |
| By the fiery flaming sheets | T |
| And others hunting for some friend | V |
| That perhaps they never found | W |
| Such weeping wailing never was known | X |
| For a thousands miles around | W |
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| Some people were very wealthy | Y |
| On the morning of the th | I |
| But at the close of the evening | Z |
| Was poor but felt content | A2 |
| Glad to escape from harm with life | S |
| With friends they loved so well | B2 |
| Some will try to gain more wisdom | C2 |
| By the sad sight they beheld | A2 |
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| Five thousand people were homeless | D2 |
| Sad wanderers in the streets | T |
| With no shelter to cover them | E2 |
| And no food had they to eat | A2 |
| They wandered down by the lake side | A2 |
| Lay down on the cold damp ground | A2 |
| So tired and weary and homeless | D2 |
| So the rich the poor was found | A2 |
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| Mothers with dear little infants | F2 |
| Some clinging to the breast | A2 |
| People of every description | G2 |
| All laid down there to rest | A2 |
| With the sky as their covering | Z |
| Ah pillows they had none | G2 |
| Sad oh sad it must have been | H2 |
| For those poor homeless ones | L |
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| Neighboring Cities sent comfort | A2 |
| To the poor lone helpless ones | L |
| And God will not forget them | E2 |
| In all the years to come | C2 |
| Now the City of Chicago | C |
| Is built up anew once more | I2 |
| And may it never be visited | A2 |
| With such a great fire no more | I2 |
Julia Ann Moore
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