Our Privilege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CADA EAFA AGAG AHIH JKJKNot ours where battle smoke upcurls | A |
And battle dews lie wet | B |
To meet the charge that treason hurls | A |
By sword and bayonet | B |
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Not ours to guide the fatal scythe | C |
The fleshless Reaper wields | A |
The harvest moon looks calmly down | D |
Upon our peaceful fields | A |
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The long grass dimples on the hill | E |
The pines sing by the sea | A |
And Plenty from her golden horn | F |
Is pouring far and free | A |
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O brothers by the farther sea | A |
Think still our faith is warm | G |
The same bright flag above us waves | A |
That swathed our baby form | G |
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The same red blood that dyes your fields | A |
Here throbs in patriot pride | H |
The blood that flowed when Lander fell | I |
And Baker's crimson tide | H |
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And thus apart our hearts keep time | J |
With every pulse ye feel | K |
And Mercy's ringing gold shall chime | J |
With Valor's clashing steel | K |
Bret Harte
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