The Criminal War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DEDEEE FEFEE EEEEGE HEHEIE JBJBKB| I am shocked beyond words | A |
| Said the statesman 'Tis crime | B |
| That the clamoring herds | A |
| Should seek war at this time | B |
| For a criminal war is sheer folly | C |
| Subversive to ideals sublime | B |
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| There are wars that are nice | D |
| There are wars that are not | E |
| And 'tis seeking with vice | D |
| That the nations should plot | E |
| World war when my land is unready | E |
| I refuse to consider such rot | E |
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| My philosophy's clear | F |
| My morality too | E |
| Tho' my rivals may sneer | F |
| At the things that I do | E |
| If at present for me war's illegal It must be illegal for you | E |
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| We are human I trust | E |
| And to decency wed | E |
| Let's have war if we must | E |
| But at present I dread | E |
| What crimes may come out of the carnage | G |
| If blood be illegally shed | E |
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| In the past all along | H |
| We have cleaved to our creed | E |
| We shall fight when we're strong | H |
| When we're not we still plead | E |
| Our revulsion to acts homicidal | I |
| Induced by man's envy and greed | E |
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| Keep the sword in its sheath | J |
| Seek sweet peace for a time | B |
| Till all armed to the teeth | J |
| Our meek voices may climb | B |
| To sue for the blessings of Heaven | K |
| On butchery purged of all crime | B |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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