Right's Security Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCDDEFFFGGHHIJJJ IIKK| WHAT if the wind do howl without | A |
| And turn the creaking weather vane | B |
| What if the arrows of the rain | B |
| Do beat against the window pane | B |
| Art thou not armored strong and fast | C |
| Against the sallies of the blast | C |
| Art thou not sheltered safe and well | D |
| Against the flood's insistent swell | D |
| What boots it that thou stand'st alone | E |
| And laughest in the battle's face | F |
| When all the weak have fled the place | F |
| And let their feet and fears keep pace | F |
| Thou wavest still thine ensign high | G |
| And shoutest thy loud battle cry | G |
| Higher than e'er the tempest roared | H |
| It cleaves the silence like a sword | H |
| Right arms and armors too that man | I |
| Who will not compromise with wrong | J |
| Though single he must front the throng | J |
| And wage the battle hard and long | J |
| Minorities since time began | I |
| Have shown the better side of man | I |
| And often in the lists of Time | K |
| One man has made a cause sublime | K |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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