The Faith Of Old George Jones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC DEDEFGFG HCHCIJIK LMLMCCCC| War raged around this troubled world | A |
| When I was but a lad | B |
| And into battle men were hurled | A |
| As some ambition mad | B |
| Moved kings on their unstable thrones | C |
| To bring the world unease | C |
| Mad days I'll grant said old George Jones | C |
| But not as mad as these | C |
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| They fought for power fought for gain | D |
| For land and plunder then | E |
| They fought for ends that they made plain | D |
| And understood of men | E |
| But in this strangely restless age | F |
| And this world's changing scene | G |
| Men fight and die while nations rage | F |
| For visions half unseen | G |
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| They fight for theories untried | H |
| Ideals untested creeds | C |
| And seek their ends thro' fratricide | H |
| While hate's rank passion breeds | C |
| On this red soil Must I a man | I |
| Unlettered pierce the mist | J |
| And bind myself so to some strange plan | I |
| Fascist or Socialist | K |
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| I am a man It is enough | L |
| I ply a peaceful trade | M |
| What should I know of this queer stuff | L |
| Of which their dreams are made | M |
| Small is the wisdom mankind owns | C |
| But as his knowledge grows | C |
| It seems to me said old George Jones | C |
| His hard won wisdom goes | C |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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