If We Must Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| If we must die let it not be like hogs | A |
| Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot | B |
| While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs | A |
| Making their mock at our accurs d lot | B |
| If we must die O let us nobly die | C |
| So that our precious blood may not be shed | D |
| In vain then even the monsters we defy | C |
| Shall be constrained to honor us though dead | D |
| O kinsmen we must meet the common foe | E |
| Though far outnumbered let us show us brave | F |
| And for their thousand blows deal one death blow | E |
| What though before us lies the open grave | F |
| Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack | G |
| Pressed to the wall dying but fighting back | G |
Claude Mckay
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