Renascence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFFFGHGI FFFFJFJF KL L F F| World war had come and gone It seemed the end | A |
| Spent broken by the last despair oppressed | B |
| Unfitted to attack or yet defend | A |
| The nations' panting remnants skulked to rest | B |
| A listless brutish rest where no hope gleamed | C |
| Where earth's last glory had been thrown away | D |
| With all the splendid dreams man ever dreamed | C |
| And his proud world a stricken shambles lay | D |
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| Grief only stayed Great cities in the dust | E |
| Littered the path of ruin absolute | F |
| Where sapient man in that last mad bloodlust | F |
| Surrendered all his birthright to the Brute | F |
| And now the Brute triumphant claimed an earth | G |
| Where love or life or death mattered no more | H |
| And faith and friendship every shred of worth | G |
| Dishonored utterly were trampled o'er | I |
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| With a field where lately countless dead | F |
| Had lain till deeper kindlier rest they found | F |
| I saw a man who walked with bended head | F |
| And eyes that ever searched the shell torn ground | F |
| Times would he pause and lifting up anon | J |
| Some metal fragment weigh it in his hand | F |
| Cast it aside and wearily pass on | J |
| Searching and ever searching that red land | F |
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| 'Strange man ' I said 'what are you seeking here | K |
| Where tortured soil grins upward to the skies | L |
| Mayhap some relic of a comrade dear ' | - |
| He raised his head And I beheld his eyes | L |
| Indomitable eyes 'What search you for ' | - |
| I urged again 'where futile heroes died | F |
| And hope lies buried deep for evermore ' | - |
| 'For steel to shape a ploughshare ' he replied | F |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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