Thoughts Of A Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLKMNENE AOAODCDB PHPHQEQESince men with life must purchase life | A |
And some must die that more may live | B |
Unto the Great Cashier of strife | A |
A fine accounting let me give | C |
Perhaps to morrow I shall stand | D |
Before his cage prepared to buy | E |
New splendor for my native land | D |
Oh God then bravely let me die | E |
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If after I shall fall shall rise | F |
A fairer land than I have known | G |
I shall not grudge my sacrifice | H |
Although I pay the price alone | G |
If still more beautiful to see | I |
The Stars and Stripes o'er men shall wave | J |
And finer shall my country be | I |
To morrow let me find my grave | J |
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To night life seems so fair and sweet | K |
Yet tyranny is stalking here | L |
And hate and lust and foul deceit | K |
Hang heavy on the atmosphere | M |
Injustice seeks to throttle right | N |
And laughter's stifled to a sigh | E |
If death can take so great a blight | N |
From human lives then let me die | E |
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If death must be the cost of life | A |
And freedom's terms are human souls | O |
Into the thickest of the strife | A |
Then let me go to pay the tolls | O |
I would enrich my native land | D |
New splendor to her flag I'd give | C |
If where I fall shall freedom stand | D |
And where I die shall freedom live | B |
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To morrow death with me may trade | P |
Let me not quibble o'er the price | H |
But may I once the bargain's made | P |
With courage meet the sacrifice | H |
If happiness for ages long | Q |
My little term of life can buy | E |
God for my country make me strong | Q |
To morrow let me bravely die | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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