Laughter In The Senate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFB GGHI JJJI

In the South lies a lonesome hungry LandA
He huddles his rags with a cripple's handA
He mutters prone on the barren sandA
What time his heart is breakingB
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He lifts his bare head from the groundC
He listens through the gloom aroundC
The winds have brought him a strange soundC
Of distant merrymakingB
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Comes now the Peace so long delayedD
Is it the cheerful voice of AidD
Begins the time his heart has prayedD
When men may reap and sowE
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Ah God Back to the cold earth's breastF
The sages chuckle o'er their jestF
Must they to give a people restF
Their dainty wit foregoB
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The tyrants sit in a stately hallG
They jibe at a wretched people's fallG
The tyrants forget how fresh is the pallH
Over their dead and oursI
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Look how the senators ape the clownJ
And don the motley and hide the gownJ
But yonder a fast rising frownJ
On the people's forehead lowersI

Sidney Lanier



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