Hate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCBD AEAAEFGFFG AHAAHGIGGI| They say we must not hate nor fight in hate | A |
| I've thought it over many a solemn hour | B |
| And cannot mildly view the man or state | A |
| That has no thought save only to be great | A |
| I cannot love the creature drunk with power | B |
| I hate the hand that slaughters babes at sea | C |
| I hate that will that orders wives to die | D |
| And there is something rises up in me | C |
| When brutes run wild in crime and lechery | B |
| That soft adjustments will not satisfy | D |
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| Men seldom fight the things they do not hate | A |
| A vice grows strong on mildly tempered scorn | E |
| Rank thrives the weed the gardeners tolerate | A |
| You cannot stroke the snake that lies in wait | A |
| And change his nature with to morrow's morn | E |
| If roses are to bloom the weeds must go | F |
| Vice be dethroned if virtue is to reign | G |
| I Honor and shame together cannot grow | F |
| Sin either conquers or we lay it low | F |
| Wrong must be hated if the truth remain | G |
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| I hold that we must fight this war in hate | A |
| In bitter hate of blood in fury spilled | H |
| Of children bending over book and slate | A |
| Slaughtered to make a Prussian despot great | A |
| In hate of mothers pitilessly killed | H |
| In hate of liars plotting wars for gain | G |
| In hate of crimes too black for printeds page | I |
| In hate of wrongs that mark the tyrant's reign | G |
| And crush forever all within his train | G |
| Such hate shall be the glory of our age | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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