Why We Fight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCBC DDEFEF GGHIHI JJKCLC

This is the thing we fightA
A cry of terror in the nightA
A ship on work of mercy bentB
A carrier of the sick and maimedC
Beneath the cruel waters sentB
And those that did it unashamedC
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A woman who had tried to fillD
A mother's place had nursed the illD
And soothed the troubled brows of painE
And earned the dying's grateful prayersF
Before a wall by soldiers slainE
And such a poor pretext was theirsF
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Old women pierced by bayonets grimG
And babies slaughtered for a whimG
Cathedrals made the sport of shellsH
No mercy even for a childI
As though the imps of all the hellsH
Were crazed with drink and running wildI
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All this we fight that some day whenJ
Good sense shall come again to menJ
Our children's children may not readK
This age's history thus defamedC
And find we served a selfish creedL
And ever be of us ashamedC

Edgar Albert Guest



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