The Politician Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCA DEDEFF| Carven in leathern mask or brazen face | A |
| Were I time's sculptor I would set this man | B |
| Retreating from the truth his hawk eyes scan | B |
| The platforms of all public thought for place | A |
| There wriggling with insinuating grace | A |
| He takes poor hope and effort by the hand | C |
| And flatters with half truths and accents bland | C |
| Till even zeal and earnest love grow base | A |
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| Knowing no right save power's grim right of way | D |
| No nobleness save life's ignoble praise | E |
| No future save this sordid day to day | D |
| He is the curse of these material days | E |
| Juggling with mighty wrongs and mightier lies | F |
| This worshipper of Dagon and his flies | F |
William Wilfred Campbell
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