Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQJQ RSTS UVWV| It is portentous and a thing of state | A |
| That here at midnight in our little town | B |
| A mourning figure walks and will not rest | C |
| Near the old court house pacing up and down | B |
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| Or by his homestead or in shadowed yards | D |
| He lingers where his children used to play | E |
| Or through the market on the well worn stones | F |
| He stalks until the dawn stars burn away | E |
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| A bronzed lank man His suit of ancient black | G |
| A famous high top hat and plain worn shawl | H |
| Make him the quaint great figure that men love | I |
| The prairie lawyer master of us all | H |
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| He cannot sleep upon his hillside now | J |
| He is among us as in times before | K |
| And we who toss and lie awake for long | L |
| Breathe deep and start to see him pass the door | K |
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| His head is bowed He thinks on men and kings | M |
| Yea when the sick world cries how can he sleep | N |
| Too many peasants fight they know not why | O |
| Too many homesteads in black terror weep | N |
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| The sins of all the war lords burn his heart | P |
| He sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main | Q |
| He carries on his shawl wrapped shoulders now | J |
| The bitterness the folly and the pain | Q |
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| He cannot rest until a spirit dawn | R |
| Shall come the shining hope of Europe free | S |
| The league of sober folk the Workers' Earth | T |
| Bringing long peace to Cornland Alp and Sea | S |
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| It breaks his heart that kings must murder still | U |
| That all his hours of travail here for men | V |
| Seem yet in vain And who will bring white peace | W |
| That he may sleep upon his hill again | V |
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