The Alarm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFHIJIJ KLMLBNCN| Get off your downy cots of ease | A |
| There's work that must be done | B |
| Great danger's riding on the seas | A |
| The storm is coming on | C |
| Don't think that it will quickly pass | D |
| Who smiles at distant fate | E |
| And waits until it strikes alas | D |
| Has roused himself too late | E |
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| Who thinks the fight will end before | F |
| The need of him arrives | G |
| Is lengthening this brutal war | F |
| And costing many lives | H |
| For over us that storm shall break | I |
| Ere many weeks have fled | J |
| And we shall pay for our mistake | I |
| In fields of mangled dead | J |
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| Be ready when the foe shall near | K |
| Be there to strike him hard | L |
| Let us though he be miles from here | M |
| Be standing now on guard | L |
| To morrow's victories won't be won | B |
| By pluck that we display | N |
| To morrow when the foe comes on | C |
| But by our work to day | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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