Thoughts Of A Soldier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLKMNENE AOAODCDB PHPHQEQE

Since men with life must purchase lifeA
And some must die that more may liveB
Unto the Great Cashier of strifeA
A fine accounting let me giveC
Perhaps to morrow I shall standD
Before his cage prepared to buyE
New splendor for my native landD
Oh God then bravely let me dieE
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If after I shall fall shall riseF
A fairer land than I have knownG
I shall not grudge my sacrificeH
Although I pay the price aloneG
If still more beautiful to seeI
The Stars and Stripes o'er men shall waveJ
And finer shall my country beI
To morrow let me find my graveJ
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To night life seems so fair and sweetK
Yet tyranny is stalking hereL
And hate and lust and foul deceitK
Hang heavy on the atmosphereM
Injustice seeks to throttle rightN
And laughter's stifled to a sighE
If death can take so great a blightN
From human lives then let me dieE
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If death must be the cost of lifeA
And freedom's terms are human soulsO
Into the thickest of the strifeA
Then let me go to pay the tollsO
I would enrich my native landD
New splendor to her flag I'd giveC
If where I fall shall freedom standD
And where I die shall freedom liveB
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To morrow death with me may tradeP
Let me not quibble o'er the priceH
But may I once the bargain's madeP
With courage meet the sacrificeH
If happiness for ages longQ
My little term of life can buyE
God for my country make me strongQ
To morrow let me bravely dieE

Edgar Albert Guest



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