Fruits Of Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB HIHIEJEJ KDKDGJGJ| These be the fruits O man who would out loom | A |
| The proudest Caesar of Rome's proudest story | B |
| When legion after legion marched to doom | A |
| That one man might be clothed in briefest glory | B |
| Torn bodies bloody fields and the rank lees | C |
| Of Conquest's maddening draft and so a nation | D |
| Fat with much spoil and many victories | C |
| Drifted into decay and desolation | D |
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| These be the fruits Dead men who die in vain | E |
| Maimed broken men to living death surrendered | F |
| A myriad stricken homes to mourn the slain | E |
| Men Cannon fodder to the War God tendered | F |
| Deluded boys primed with vainglorious dreams | G |
| Of flashing steel romance war's outworn story | B |
| Sent forth to gasp young lives out in foul streams | G |
| Of fetid gas meet attributes of glory | B |
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| These be the fruits This tortured shred of flesh | H |
| Lately a youth with youth's bright gifts scarce tasted | I |
| Sent to the shambles while still clear and fresh | H |
| In minds of men the Lesson lingers wasted | I |
| The Lesson tought but lately and so plain | E |
| That even fools its wisdom here might borrow | J |
| For victor and for vanquished war's sole gain | E |
| Lies in long after years of pain and sorrow | J |
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| Fruits Dead sea fruits most bitter with the taste | K |
| Of all war's grim bequest of worse confusion | D |
| God and men's bodies fruitful earth laid waste | K |
| Not in dire need but for a vain delusion | D |
| And in the end a tinsel god who prates | G |
| Of hollow victories crying 'Tomorrow | J |
| Shall we triumphant rise ' While at the gates | G |
| Lurks a land's heritage relentless Sorrow | J |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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