Where Is God? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEBE FGHIJKLK BMJMNOJP BQRQDEBE| Written during the hostilities in the Far East in | A |
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| Hard by the gates of Eden | B |
| Where God first walked with man | C |
| In the light of the new creation | B |
| Ere the race of Cain began | C |
| The world wide hosts have gathered | D |
| And their swords are drawn to slay | E |
| God was with man in Eden | B |
| But where is God today | E |
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| From the ice bound steppes of the Cossack | F |
| From the home of the fleur de lis | G |
| From the vineyards that crown the Rhineland | H |
| To the shores of the phosphor sea | I |
| The clans have gathered for battle | J |
| And each for the signal waits | K |
| While a million swords are flaming | L |
| At Eden's Eastern gates | K |
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| By the sign of the yellow dragon | B |
| By the tri color's bars of light | M |
| By the double throated eagle | J |
| That screams with the lust of fight | M |
| By the Union Jack of Britannia | N |
| By Columbia's stars and bars | O |
| They pray to the god of battle | J |
| For the meed of a hundred wars | P |
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| Hard by the gates of Eden | B |
| Where the passion flower of strife | Q |
| First bloomed at its blood red altar | R |
| At the price of a brother's life | Q |
| The children of Cain are gathered | D |
| To plunder and burn and slay | E |
| God was with man in Eden | B |
| But where is God today | E |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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