The Burning Of Chicago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI EJEJ KLKL MNMN COCO PQPQ BKBK AKAK| Out of the west a voice a shudder of horror and pity | A |
| Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow | B |
| Woe for the fallen queen for the proud and beautiful city | A |
| Out of the North a cry lamentation and mourning and woe | B |
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| Dust and ashes and darkness her splendour and brightness cover | C |
| Like clouds above the glory of purple mountain peaks | D |
| She sits with her proud head bowed and a mantle of blackness over | C |
| She weepeth sore in the night and her tears are on her cheeks | D |
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| The city of gardens and palaces stately and tall pavilions | E |
| Roofs flashing back the sunlight music and gladness and mirth | F |
| Whose streets were full of the hum and roar of the toiling millions | E |
| Whose merchantmen were princes and the honourable of the earth | F |
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| Whose traders came from the islands from far off summer places | G |
| Bringing spices and pearls and the furs and skins of beasts | H |
| Men from the frozen North and men with fierce dark faces | G |
| Full of the desert fire and the untamed life of the East | I |
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| Treasures of gems and gold of statues and flowers and fountains | E |
| Vases of onyx and jasper from Indian emperors sent | J |
| Pictures out of the heart of tropical sunlit mountains | E |
| Of rocks of porphyry piled at the gates of the Occident | J |
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| Dusk brown sons of the forest hunters of deer and of bison | K |
| And the almond eyed child of the sun met in her busy streets | L |
| With waifs from the banks of the Indus and the ancient river Pison | K |
| Lands of the date and the palm and the citron's hoarded sweets | L |
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| The surging tide of the prairie rolled its billows of blossom | M |
| Against her mighty walls and beat at her hundred gates | N |
| The riches of all the world were poured into her bosom | M |
| Kings were her mighty men and lords and potentates | N |
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| She sat in her place by the sea and the swift sailing ships obeyed her | C |
| Full freighted with corn and wheat their purple sails unfurled | O |
| Far off in the morning land and the isles beyond the equator | C |
| Out of her heaped up garners she scattered the bread of the world | O |
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| As her pride and her beauty were perfect so desolation and mourning | P |
| Swift and sudden and sure her utter destruction came | Q |
| The heavens above were dark with the smoke of her awful burning | P |
| And the earth and the sea were lighted with the fierceness of her flame | Q |
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| Behold oh England oh Europe and see is there any sorrow | B |
| Like hers who sits in silence among her children slain | K |
| Oh blackness of woe and ruin can any future morrow | B |
| Bring back to the shrouded city her glory and crown again | K |
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| Aye subtle and wonderful links of human love and pity | A |
| Ye have bridged the sea of ruin and spanned it with a span | K |
| She shall rise again from her ashes and build a fairer city | A |
| With a larger faith in God and the Brotherhood of Man | K |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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