Mothers And Wives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDEDE FGFHIEIE JDJDKLKL MNMOPEPE| Mothers and wives 'tis the call to arms | A |
| That the bugler yonder prepares to sound | B |
| We stand on the brink of war's alarms | A |
| And your men may lie on a blood stained | C |
| ground | B |
| The drums may play and the flags may fly | D |
| And our boys may don the brown and blue | E |
| And the call that summons brave men to die | D |
| Is the call for glorious women too | E |
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| Mothers and wives if the summons comes | F |
| You as ever since war has been | G |
| Must hear with courage the rolling drums | F |
| And dry your tears when the flags are seen | H |
| For never has hero fought and died | I |
| Who has braver been than the mother who | E |
| Buckled his sabre at his side | I |
| And sent him forward to dare and do | E |
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| Mothers and wives should the call ring out | J |
| It is you must answer your country's cry | D |
| You must furnish brave hearts and stout | J |
| For the firing line where the heroes die | D |
| And never a corpse on the field of strife | K |
| Should be honoured more in his country's sight | L |
| Than the noble mother or noble wife | K |
| Who sent him forth in the cause of right | L |
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| Mothers and wives 'tis the call for men | M |
| To give their strength and to give their lives | N |
| But well we know such a summons then | M |
| Is the call for mothers and loyal wives | O |
| For you must give us the strength we need | P |
| You must give us the boys in blue | E |
| For never a boy or a man shall bleed | P |
| But a mother or wife shall suffer too | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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