Proverbs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCBBCCCCBBDDCCC CCCCCCCCEFGHBBCCIJKK| One continent one creed one skin | A |
| Our health and savour lie therein | A |
| From wars and heavy things this grace is won | B |
| They urge our pulse to unison | B |
| Shall this remoteness hinder thee | C |
| Pluck thence a call to sovereignty | C |
| Thou centre of the world to be | C |
| The servile State is what a prison one | B |
| For superseded life or strictly none | B |
| Where the ignoble State is sanctified | C |
| See universal suicide | C |
| Not numbers shall the State exalt | C |
| If civic virtue be at fault | C |
| If virtue grounds but on negation | B |
| Seek other ground on which to build a nation | B |
| The larger good supplanting this is gall | D |
| How else to the overreaching of the small | D |
| A quot fortune quot won a speciousness the State | C |
| Will blot as illegitimate | C |
| National growth how presses Shall it be | C |
| For creed or caste put off whose prophets see | C |
| No virtue in the essential unity | C |
| That knife for thee thou help'st them sharpen it | C |
| Where is thy spirit where thy wit | C |
| 'Tis better much But who has felt and proved | C |
| Till hate the foe hath grappled how he loved | C |
| What takes its stature whole erect | C |
| Till measured in the opposed effect | C |
| Too much we can respect the fence | E |
| Of aptness and expedience | F |
| Why pledged there of the sepulchre complain | G |
| Earth shall fling out its flower again | H |
| Creation life's one satisfaction | B |
| Stumbles first in the abstraction | B |
| Who move not to a goal defined | C |
| Will speed as do their next of kin the blind | C |
| What makes the compromising bosom sure | I |
| Hath the ordained investiture | J |
| What here is visioned fact will prove | K |
| As we put on the means and move | K |
William Baylebridge
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