Hail! Master Death! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIJDJD KLKLMDMD| When conquerors lift the bloody shield | A |
| Showing the fallen's ooze of life | B |
| And on a waste of blasted field | A |
| Joy quickens to the drum and fife | B |
| Then the weird brood of flame and fate | C |
| Far under ground are ill at ease | D |
| And rock their bodies as they wait | C |
| When Death shall strangle even these | D |
| - | |
| The banquet board is red and white | E |
| And laughter bubbles with the wine | F |
| But what's the meed of this delight | E |
| The pauper's children peak and pine | F |
| Enough our sisters laughing stir | G |
| The prescient worm which scents and sees | D |
| The feast time shall not long defer | G |
| For Death shall strangle even these | D |
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| Tumbled at last in earth and lost | H |
| To church bells sycophant and priest | I |
| The sodden hulks of those who crossed | H |
| The world with sorrow west and east | I |
| True Holder of the scales and sword | J |
| God of all Gods whose stern decrees | D |
| Scatter the emperor's bloody hoard | J |
| Great Death who stranglest even these | D |
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| So we shall not forever lie | K |
| In graves o'er run by cloven feet | L |
| We vanquished who were first to die | K |
| We hooted from the judgment seat | L |
| Come arm d hands and hands that clutch | M |
| The bauble world fall to your knees | D |
| Oh you who triumphed over much | M |
| For death shall strangle even these | D |
Edgar Lee Masters
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