The Common Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCCCD EFEFGHGGGH IFJFKLKKKL FMFNKKOKKKK PLPLKQKKKQ| The great men framed the fierce decrees | A |
| Embroiling State with State | B |
| They bit their thumbs across the seas | A |
| In diplomatic hate | B |
| They lit the pyre whose glare and heat | C |
| Make Hell itself seem cold | D |
| The flames bloomed red above the wheat | C |
| Their wild profusion wreathed the street | C |
| Then in the smoke and fiery sleet | C |
| The common men took hold | D |
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| Where Babel was with Bedlam freed | E |
| And wide the gates were flung | F |
| To chaos while the anarch breed | E |
| In all the world gave tongue | F |
| The common men in close array | G |
| By mountain plain and sea | H |
| Went outward girded for the fray | G |
| On one dear quest whate'er they pay | G |
| In blood and pain the open way | G |
| To keep for Liberty | H |
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| The common men who never tire | I |
| Unsightly in the mirk | F |
| Of caking blood and smoke and mire | J |
| Push forward with their work | F |
| A while in foulest pits entombed | K |
| Resistless still and slow | L |
| Burnt broken stifled seeming doomed | K |
| Past where the flowers of Satan bloomed | K |
| Up gutted hills with shell breath plumed | K |
| The stubborn armies go | L |
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| Contending in the shattered sky | F |
| In empyrean wars | M |
| The sons of simple men out vie | F |
| God's splendid meteors | N |
| Where'er the mills of Vulcan roared | K |
| And blinked against the night | K |
| Swart shapes with sweat washed eyes have | O |
| stored | K |
| The clean lean lightnings of the Lord | K |
| To be a league long leaping sword | K |
| In this our holy fight | K |
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| The small men know the burden well | P |
| The dreadful paths they know | L |
| With fear and death and torture dwell | P |
| And sup and sleep with woe | L |
| They're riven in the shrapnel gust | K |
| But blind and reeling plan | Q |
| Another blow a final thrust | K |
| To subjugate the tyrant's lust | K |
| So bleeding blundering in the dust | K |
| Men fight and die for MAN | Q |
Edward George Dyson
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