The Bayonet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGGHG IJKJ LMNMOPNP| The 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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