The Hosts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFFGHGHIIJK JKLLMM NONOMMPQPQRMRMMMSSMT MTUUMMMMMM| Purged with the life they left of all | A |
| That makes life paltry and mean and small | A |
| In their new dedication charged | B |
| With something heightened enriched enlarged | B |
| That lends a light to their lusty brows | C |
| And a song to the rhythm of their tramping feet | D |
| These are the men that have taken vows | C |
| These are the hardy the flower the elite | D |
| These are the men that are moved no more | E |
| By the will to traffic and grasp and store | E |
| And ring with pleasure and wealth and love | F |
| The circles that self is the center of | F |
| But they are moved by the powers that force | G |
| The sea forever to ebb and rise | H |
| That hold Arcturus in his course | G |
| And marshal at noon in tropic skies | H |
| The clouds that tower on some snow capped chain | I |
| And drift out over the peopled plain | I |
| They are big with the beauty of cosmic things | J |
| Mark how their columns surge They seem | K |
| To follow the goddess with outspread wings | J |
| That points toward Glory the soldier's dream | K |
| With bayonets bare and flags unfurled | L |
| They scale the summits of the world | L |
| And fade on the farthest golden height | M |
| In fair horizons full of light | M |
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| Comrades in arms there friend or foe | N |
| That trod the perilous toilsome trail | O |
| Through a world of ruin and blood and woe | N |
| In the years of the great decision hail | O |
| Friend or foe it shall matter nought | M |
| This only matters in fine we fought | M |
| For we were young and in love or strife | P |
| Sought exultation and craved excess | Q |
| To sound the wildest debauch in life | P |
| We staked our youth and its loveliness | Q |
| Let idlers argue the right and wrong | R |
| And weigh what merit our causes had | M |
| Putting our faith in being strong | R |
| Above the level of good and bad | M |
| For us we battled and burned and killed | M |
| Because evolving Nature willed | M |
| And it was our pride and boast to be | S |
| The instruments of Destiny | S |
| There was a stately drama writ | M |
| By the hand that peopled the earth and air | T |
| And set the stars in the infinite | M |
| And made night gorgeous and morning fair | T |
| And all that had sense to reason knew | U |
| That bloody drama must be gone through | U |
| Some sat and watched how the action veered | M |
| Waited profited trembled cheered | M |
| We saw not clearly nor understood | M |
| But yielding ourselves to the masterhand | M |
| Each in his part as best he could | M |
| We played it through as the author planned | M |
Alan Seeger
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