The Statue Of Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDB EFGHHF BIGDDI JKHDDK LMDNNO PQCDDQ RDSHHD HTDUVT HWCGGW XYDGGY| This statue of Liberty busy man | A |
| Here erect in the city square | B |
| I have watched while your scrubbings this early morning | C |
| Strangely wistful | D |
| And half tristful | D |
| Have turned her from foul to fair | B |
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| With your bucket of water and mop and brush | E |
| Bringing her out of the grime | F |
| That has smeared her during the smokes of winter | G |
| With such glumness | H |
| In her dumbness | H |
| And aged her before her time | F |
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| You have washed her down with motherly care | B |
| Head shoulders arm and foot | I |
| To the very hem of the robes that drape her | G |
| All expertly | D |
| And alertly | D |
| Till a long stream black with soot | I |
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| Flows over the pavement to the road | J |
| And her shape looms pure as snow | K |
| I read you are hired by the City guardians | H |
| May be yearly | D |
| Or once merely | D |
| To treat the statues so | K |
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| Oh I'm not hired by the Councilmen | L |
| To cleanse the statues here | M |
| I do this one as a self willed duty | D |
| Not as paid to | N |
| Or at all made to | N |
| But because the doing is dear | O |
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| Ah then I hail you brother and friend | P |
| Liberty's knight divine | Q |
| What you have done would have been my doing | C |
| Yea most verily | D |
| Well and thoroughly | D |
| Had but your courage been mine | Q |
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| Oh I care not for Liberty's mould | R |
| Liberty charms not me | D |
| What's Freedom but an idler's vision | S |
| Vain pernicious | H |
| Often vicious | H |
| Of things that cannot be | D |
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| Memory it is that brings me to this | H |
| Of a daughter my one sweet own | T |
| She grew a famous carver's model | D |
| One of the fairest | U |
| And of the rarest | V |
| She sat for the figure as shown | T |
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| But alas she died in this distant place | H |
| Before I was warned to betake | W |
| Myself to her side And in love of my darling | C |
| In love of the fame of her | G |
| And the good name of her | G |
| I do this for her sake | W |
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| Answer I gave not Of that form | X |
| The carver was I at his side | Y |
| His child my model held so saintly | D |
| Grand in feature | G |
| Gross in nature | G |
| In the dens of vice had died | Y |
Thomas Hardy
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