The Bayonet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGGHG IJKJ LMNMOPNPThe great guns slay from a league away the death | A |
bolts fly unseen | B |
And bellowing hill replies to hill machine to brute | C |
machine | B |
But still in the end when the long lines bend and | D |
the battle hangs in doubt | E |
They take to the steel in the same old way that | F |
their fathers fought it out | E |
It is man to man and breast to breast and eye | G |
to bloodshot eye | G |
And the reach and twist of the thrusting wrist as | H |
it was in the days gone by | G |
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Along the shaken hills the guns their drumming | I |
thunder roll | J |
But the keen blades thrill with the lust to kill | K |
that leaps from the slayer's soul | J |
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For hand and heart and living steel one pulse of | L |
hate they feel | M |
Is your clan afraid of the naked blade Does it | N |
flinch from the bitter steel | M |
Perish your dreams of conquest then your swollen | O |
hopes and bold | P |
For empire dwells with the stabbing blade as it | N |
did in the days of old | P |
Don Marquis
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