The Confederate Flags Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE FBFB GHGH EIEI JBKB LMLN OEO BEBE BEBE PEPE QRBR SHSH| Tut tut give back the flags how can you care | A |
| You veterans and heroes | B |
| Why should you at a kind intention swear | A |
| Like twenty Neros | B |
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| Suppose the act was not so overwise | B |
| Suppose it was illegal | C |
| Is't well on such a question to arise | B |
| And punch the Eagle | C |
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| Nay let's economize his breath to scold | D |
| And terrify the alien | E |
| Who tackles him as Hercules of old | D |
| The bird Stymphalian | E |
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| Among the rebels when we made a breach | F |
| Was it to get the banners | B |
| That was but incidental 'twas to teach | F |
| Them better manners | B |
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| They know the lessons well enough to day | G |
| Now let us try to show them | H |
| That we're not only stronger far than they | G |
| How we did mow them | H |
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| But more magnanimous My lads 'tis plain | E |
| 'Twas an uncommon riot | I |
| The warlike tribes of Europe fight for gain | E |
| We fought for quiet | I |
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| If we were victors then we all must live | J |
| With the same flag above us | B |
| 'Twas all in vain unless we now forgive | K |
| And make them love us | B |
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| Let kings keep trophies to display above | L |
| Their doors like any savage | M |
| The freeman's trophy is the foeman's love | L |
| Despite war's ravage | N |
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| 'Make treason odious ' My friends you'll find | O |
| You can't in right and reason | E |
| While 'Washington' and 'treason' are combined | O |
| 'Hugo' and 'treason ' | - |
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| All human governments must take the chance | B |
| And hazard of sedition | E |
| O wretch to pledge your manhood in advance | B |
| To blind submission | E |
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| It may be wrong it may be right to rise | B |
| In warlike insurrection | E |
| The loyalty that fools so dearly prize | B |
| May mean subjection | E |
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| Be loyal to your country yes but how | P |
| If tyrants hold dominion | E |
| The South believed they did can't you allow | P |
| For that opinion | E |
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| He who will never rise though rulers plot | Q |
| His liberties despising | R |
| He is he manlier than the sans culottes | B |
| Who's always rising | R |
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| Give back the foolish flags whose bearers fell | S |
| Too valiant to forsake them | H |
| Is it presumptuous this counsel Well | S |
| I helped to take them | H |
Ambrose Bierce
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