Harry Wilmans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHIJKCHLMCCCN COPQCHQ| I was just turned twenty one | A |
| And Henry Phipps the Sunday school superintendent | B |
| Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House | C |
| The honor of the flag must be upheld he said | D |
| Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of Tagalogs | C |
| Or the greatest power in Europe | E |
| And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved | F |
| As he spoke | G |
| And I went to the war in spite of my father | H |
| And followed the flag till I saw it raised | I |
| By our camp in a rice field near Manila | J |
| And all of us cheered and cheered it | K |
| But there were flies and poisonous things | C |
| And there was the deadly water | H |
| And the cruel heat | L |
| And the sickening putrid food | M |
| And the smell of the trench just back of the tents | C |
| Where the soldiers went to empty themselves | C |
| And there were the whores who followed us full of syphilis | C |
| And beastly acts between ourselves or alone | N |
| With bullying hatred degradation among us | C |
| And days of loathing and nights of fear | O |
| To the hour of the charge through the steaming swamp | P |
| Following the flag | Q |
| Till I fell with a scream shot through the guts | C |
| Now there's a flag over me in Spoon River | H |
| A flag A flag | Q |
Edgar Lee Masters
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