Prophecy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEFGEGE HBHBIJIJKLKL| We shall thank our God for graces | A |
| That we've never known before | B |
| We shall look on manlier faces | C |
| When our troubled days are o'er | D |
| We shall rise a better nation | E |
| From the battle's grief and grime | F |
| And shall win our soul's salvation | E |
| In this bitter trial time | F |
| And the old Flag waving o'er us | G |
| In the dancing morning sun | E |
| Will be daily singing for us | G |
| Of a splendor new begun | E |
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| When the rifles cease to rattle | H |
| And the cannon cease to roar | B |
| When is passed the smoke of battle | H |
| And the death lists are no more | B |
| With a yet undreamed of beauty | I |
| As a people we shall rise | J |
| And a love of right and duty | I |
| Shall be gleaming in our eyes | J |
| As a country tried by sorrow | K |
| With a heritage of worth | L |
| We shall stand in that to morrow | K |
| With the leaders of the earth | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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