Laughter In The Senate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFB GGHI JJJIIn the South lies a lonesome hungry Land | A |
He huddles his rags with a cripple's hand | A |
He mutters prone on the barren sand | A |
What time his heart is breaking | B |
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He lifts his bare head from the ground | C |
He listens through the gloom around | C |
The winds have brought him a strange sound | C |
Of distant merrymaking | B |
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Comes now the Peace so long delayed | D |
Is it the cheerful voice of Aid | D |
Begins the time his heart has prayed | D |
When men may reap and sow | E |
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Ah God Back to the cold earth's breast | F |
The sages chuckle o'er their jest | F |
Must they to give a people rest | F |
Their dainty wit forego | B |
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The tyrants sit in a stately hall | G |
They jibe at a wretched people's fall | G |
The tyrants forget how fresh is the pall | H |
Over their dead and ours | I |
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Look how the senators ape the clown | J |
And don the motley and hide the gown | J |
But yonder a fast rising frown | J |
On the people's forehead lowers | I |
Sidney Lanier
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