Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In a nation of one hundred fine mob hearted lynching relenting repenting millionsB
There are plenty of sweeping swinging stinging gorgeous things to shout aboutC
And knock your old blue devils outC
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I brag and chant of Bryan Bryan Bryan BryanD
Candidate for president who sketched a silver ZionD
The one American Poet who could sing outdoorsE
He brought in tides of wonder of unprecedented splendorF
Wild roses from the plains that made hearts tenderF
All the funny circus silksG
Of politics unfurledH
Bartlett pears of romance that were honey at the coresE
And torchlights down the street to the end of the worldH
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There were truths eternal in the gap and tittle tattleI
There were real heads broken in the fustian and the rattleI
There were real lines drawnJ
Not the silver and the goldK
But Nebraska's cry went eastward against the dour and oldK
The mean and coldK
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It was eighteen ninety six and I was just sixteenL
And Altgeld ruled in Springfield IllinoisM
When there came from the sunset Nebraska's shout of joyM
In a coat like a deacon in a black Stetson hatN
He scourged the elephant plutocratsO
With barbed wire from the PlatteN
The scales dropped from their mighty eyesP
They saw that summer's noonQ
A tribe of wonders comingR
To a marching tuneQ
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Oh the longhorns from TexasS
The jay hawks from KansasS
The plop eyed bungaroo and giant giassicusS
The varmint chipmunk bugabooT
The horn toad prairie dog and ballyhooT
From all the newborn states arowF
Bidding the eagles of the west fly onU
Bidding the eagles of the west fly onU
The fawn prodactyl and thing a ma jigV
The rackaboor the hellangoneU
The whangdoodle batfowl and pigV
The coyote wild cat and grizzly in a glowW
In a miracle of health and speed the whole breed abreastX
The leaped the Mississippi blue border of the WestX
From the Gulf to Canada two thousand miles longY
Against the towns of Tubal CainU
Ah sharp was their songY
Against the ways of Tubal Cain too cunning for the youngZ
The longhorn calf the buffalo and wampus gave tongueZ
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These creatures were defending things Mark Hanna never dreamedA2
The moods of airy childhood that in desert dews gleamedA2
The gossamers and whimsiesS
The monkeyshines and didoesS
Rank and strangeB2
Of the canyons and the rangeB2
The ultimate fantasticsS
Of the far western slopeC2
And of prairie schooner childrenU
Born beneath the starsS
Beneath falling snowsS
Of the babies born at midnightD2
In the sod huts of lost hopeC2
With no physician thereF
Except a Kansas prayerF
With the Indian raid a howling through the airF
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And all these in their helpless daysS
By the dour East oppressedX
Mean paternalismE2
Making their mistakes for themF2
Crucifying half the WestX
Till the whole Atlantic coastG2
Seemed a giant spiders' nestX
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And these children and their sonsS
At last rode through the cactusS
A cliff of mighty cowboysS
On the lopeC2
With gun and ropeC2
And all the way to frightened Maine the old East heard them callH2
And saw our Bryan by a mile lead the wallH2
Of men and whirling flowers and beastsS
The bard and prophet of them allH2
Prairie avenger mountain lionU
Bryan Bryan Bryan BryanU
Gigantic troubadour speaking like a siege gunU
Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the WestX
And just a hundred miles behind tornadoes piled across the skyA
Blotting out sun and moonU
A sign on highA
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Headlong dazed and blinking in the weird green lightD2
The scalawags made moanU
Afraid to fightD2
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When Bryan came to Springfield and Altgeld gave him greetingR
Rochester was deserted Divernon was desertedI2
Mechanicsburg Riverton Chickenbristle Cotton HillJ2
Empty for all Sangamon drove to the meetingR
In silver decked racing cartK2
Buggy buckboard carryallJ2
Carriage phaeton whatever would haulJ2
And silver decked farm wagons gritted banged and rolledK
With the new tale of Bryan by the iron tires toldK
The State House loomed afarF
A speck a hive a football a captive balloonU
And the town was all one spreading wing of bunting plumes and sunshineU
Every rag and flag and Bryan picture soldK
When the rigs in many a dusty lineU
Jammed our streets at noonU
And joined the wild parade against the power of goldK
We roamed we boys from High SchoolJ2
With mankind while Springfield gleamed silk linedL2
Oh Tom Dines and Art FitzgeraldM2
And the gangs that they could getN2
I can hear them yelling yetN2
Helping the incantationU
Defying aristocracyS
With every bridle goneU
Ridding the world of the low down meanU
Bidding the eagles of the West fly onU
Bidding the eagles of the West fly onU
We were bully wild and woollyS
Never yet curried below the kneesS
We saw flowers in the airF
Fair as the Pleiades bright as OrionU
Hopes of all mankindL2
Made rare resistless thrice refinedL2
Oh we bucks from every Springfield wardO2
Colts of democracyS
Yet time winds out of Chaos from the star fields of the LordO2
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The long parade rolled on I stood by my best girlJ2
She was a cool young citizen with wise and laughing eyesS
With my necktie by my ear I was stepping on my dearF
But she kept like a pattern without a shaken curlJ2
She wore in her hair a brave prairie roseS
Her gold chums cut her for that was not the poseS
No Gibson Girl would wear it in that fresh wayP2
But we were fairy Democrats and this was our dayP2
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The earth rocked like the ocean the sidewalk was a deckQ2
The houses for the moment were lost in the wide wreckQ2
And the bands played strange and stranger music as they trailed alongY
Against the ways of Tubal CainU
Ah sharp was their songY
The demons in the bricks the demons in the grassS
The demons in the bank vaults peered out to see us passS
And the angels in the trees the angels in the grassS
The angels in the flags peered out to see us passS
And the sidewalk was our chariot and the flowers bloomed higherF
And the street turned to silver and the grass turned to fireF
And then it was but grass and the town was there againU
A place for women and menU
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Then we stood where we could seeS
Every bandR2
And the speaker's standR2
And Bryan took the platformS2
And he was introducedT2
And he lifted his handR2
And cast a new spellJ2
Progressive silence fellJ2
In Springfield in Illinois around the worldH
Then we heard these glacial boulders across the prairie rolledK
'The people have a right to make their own mistakesS
You shall not crucify mankindL2
Upon a cross of gold '-
And everybody heard himU2
In the streets and State House yardV2
And everybody heard him in Springfield in IllinoisS
Around and around and around the worldH
That danced upon its axisS
And like a darling broncho whirledH
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July August suspenseS
Wall Street lost to senseS
August September OctoberF
More suspenseS
And the whole East down like a wind smashed fenceS
Then Hanna to the rescue Hanna of OhioW
Rallying the roller topsS
Rallying the bucket shopsS
Threatening drouth and deathW2
Promising mannaU
Rallying the trusts against the bawling flannelmouthW2
Invading misers' cellars tin cans socksS
Melting down the rocksS
Pouring out the long green to a million workersS
Spondulix by the mountain load to stop each new tornadoW
And beat the cheapskate blatherskiteW
Populistic anarchistic deacon desperadoW
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Election night at midnightW
Boy Brian's defeatW
Defeat of western silverF
Defeat of the wheatW
Victory of letterfilesS
And plutocrats in milesS
With dollar signs upon their coatsS
Diamond watchchains on their vests and spats on their feetW
Victory of custodians Plymouth RockX2
And all that inbred landlord stockX2
Victory of the neatW
Defeat of the aspen groves of Colorado valleysS
The blue bells of the RockiesS
And bA

Vachel Lindsay



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