Easy Service Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIJEJE KLKLMNMN OPOPQBQB| When an empty sleeve or a sightless eye | A |
| Or a legless form I see | B |
| I breathe my thanks to my God on High | A |
| For His watchful care o'er me | B |
| And I say to myself as the cripple goes | C |
| Half stumbling on his way | D |
| I may brag and boast but that brother knows | C |
| Why the old flag floats to day | D |
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| I think as I sit in my cozy den | E |
| Puffing one of my many pipes | F |
| That I've served with all of my fellow men | E |
| The glorious Stars and Stripes | F |
| Then I see a troop in the faded blue | G |
| And a few in the dusty gray | D |
| And I have to laugh at the deeds I do | G |
| For the flag that floats to day | D |
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| I see men tangled in pointed wire | H |
| The sport of the blazing sun | I |
| Mangled and maimed by a leaden fire | H |
| As the tides of battle run | I |
| And I fancy I hear their piteous calls | J |
| For merciful death and then | E |
| The cannons cease and the darkness falls | J |
| And those fluttering things are men | E |
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| Out there in the night they beg for death | K |
| Yet the Reaper spurns their cries | L |
| And it seems his jest to leave them breath | K |
| For their pitiful pleas and sighs | L |
| And I am here in my cosy room | M |
| In touch with the joys of life | N |
| I am miles away from the fields of doom | M |
| And the gory scenes of strife | N |
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| I never have vainly called for aid | O |
| Nor suffered real pangs of thirst | P |
| I have marched with life in its best parade | O |
| And never have seen its worst | P |
| In the flowers of ease I have ever basked | Q |
| And I think as the Flag I see | B |
| How much of service from some it's asked | Q |
| How little of toil from me | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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