Thoughts Of A Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLKMNENE AOAODCDB PHPHQEQE| Since 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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