To The United States Senate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC BEFE GHIH BJJJ KJLJ JJEJ EMNM OPQP JRSR TUVU WX| Revelation Verses | A |
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| And must the Senator from Illinois | B |
| Be this squat thing with blinking half closed eyes | C |
| This brazen gutter idol reared to power | D |
| Upon a leering pyramid of lies | C |
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| And must the Senator from Illinois | B |
| Be the world's proverb of successful shame | E |
| Dazzling all State house flies that steal and steal | F |
| Who when the sad State spares them count it fame | E |
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| If once or twice within his new won hall | G |
| His vote had counted for the broken men | H |
| If in his early days he wrought some good | I |
| We might a great soul's sins forgive him then | H |
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| But must the Senator from Illinois | B |
| Be vindicated by fat kings of gold | J |
| And must he be belauded by the smirched | J |
| The sleek uncanny chiefs in lies grown old | J |
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| Be warned O wanton ones who shielded him | K |
| Black wrath awaits You all shall eat the dust | J |
| You dare not say To morrow will bring peace | L |
| Let us make merry and go forth in lust | J |
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| What will you trading frogs do on a day | J |
| When Armageddon thunders thro' the land | J |
| When each sad patriot rises mad with shame | E |
| His ballot or his musket in his hand | J |
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| In the distracted states from which you came | E |
| The day is big with war hopes fierce and strange | M |
| Our iron Chicagos and our grimy mines | N |
| Rumble with hate and love and solemn change | M |
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| Too many weary men shed honest tears | O |
| Ground by machines that give the Senate ease | P |
| Too many little babes with bleeding hands | Q |
| Have heaped the fruits of empire on your knees | P |
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| And swine within the Senate in this day | J |
| When all the smothering by streets weep and wail | R |
| When wisdom breaks the hearts of her best sons | S |
| When kingly men voting for truth may fail | R |
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| These are a portent and a call to arms | T |
| Our protest turns into a battle cry | U |
| Our shame must end our States be free and clean | V |
| And in this war we choose to live and die | U |
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| So far as the writer knows this is the first use | W |
| of the popular term Armageddon in present day politics | X |
Vachel Lindsay
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