Follow The Flag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGCHC AIJIKLMNOPQP ARSRTUVUPCAC ABCBWHUHPAXA| Aye we will follow the Flag | A |
| Wherever she goes | B |
| Into the tropic sun | C |
| Into the northern snows | B |
| Go where the guns ring out | D |
| Scattering steel and lead | E |
| Painting the hills with blood | F |
| Strewing the fields with dead | E |
| But in each heart must be | G |
| And back of each bitter gun | C |
| Love for the best in life | H |
| After the fighting's done | C |
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| Aye we will follow the Flag | A |
| Into benighted lands | I |
| Brave in the faith for which | J |
| Proudly our banner stands | I |
| Life for her life we'll pay | K |
| Blood for her blood we'll give | L |
| Fighting but not to kill | M |
| Save that the best shall live | N |
| But when the cannon's roar | O |
| Dies in a hymn of peace | P |
| Justice and truth must reign | Q |
| Power of the brute must cease | P |
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| Aye we will follow the Flag | A |
| Gladly her work we'll do | R |
| Banishing wrongs of old | S |
| Founding the truth anew | R |
| What though our guns must speak | T |
| What though brave men must die | U |
| Ages of truth to come | V |
| All this shall justify | U |
| Men in the charms of peace | P |
| Basking in Freedom's sun | C |
| Some day shall bless our Flag | A |
| After our work is done | C |
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| Aye we will follow the Flag | A |
| Wherever she goes | B |
| Into the tropic sun | C |
| Into the northern snows | B |
| Fearlessly on we'll go | W |
| Into the cruel strife | H |
| Gladly the few shall die | U |
| Winning for many life | H |
| Tyranny's wrongs must cease | P |
| Brutes must no longer brag | A |
| This is our work on earth | X |
| So we will follow the Flag | A |
Edgar Albert Guest
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