Laughter In The Senate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFB GGHI JJJI| In 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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