Why We Fight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBC DDEFEF GGHIHI JJKCLCThis is the thing we fight | A |
A cry of terror in the night | A |
A ship on work of mercy bent | B |
A carrier of the sick and maimed | C |
Beneath the cruel waters sent | B |
And those that did it unashamed | C |
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A woman who had tried to fill | D |
A mother's place had nursed the ill | D |
And soothed the troubled brows of pain | E |
And earned the dying's grateful prayers | F |
Before a wall by soldiers slain | E |
And such a poor pretext was theirs | F |
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Old women pierced by bayonets grim | G |
And babies slaughtered for a whim | G |
Cathedrals made the sport of shells | H |
No mercy even for a child | I |
As though the imps of all the hells | H |
Were crazed with drink and running wild | I |
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All this we fight that some day when | J |
Good sense shall come again to men | J |
Our children's children may not read | K |
This age's history thus defamed | C |
And find we served a selfish creed | L |
And ever be of us ashamed | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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