Camp Followers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEFGHEEIJJKJELM MLNO BBPQRSAT| In the old wars of the world there were camp followers | A |
| Women of ancient sins who gave themselves for hire | B |
| Women of weak wills and strong desire | B |
| And like the poison ivy in the woods | C |
| That winds itself about tall virile trees | D |
| Until it smothers them so these | D |
| Ruined the bodies and the souls of men | E |
| More evil were they than Red War itself | F |
| Or Pestilence or Famine Now in this war | G |
| This last most awful carnage of the world | H |
| All the old wickedness exists as then | E |
| But as a foul stream from a festering fen | E |
| Is met and scattered by a mountain brook | I |
| Leaping along its beautiful bright course | J |
| So now the force | J |
| Of these new Followers of the camp has come | K |
| Straight from God's Source | J |
| To cleanse the world and cleanse the minds of men | E |
| Good women of great courage and large hearts | L |
| Women whose slogan is self sacrifice | M |
| Willing to pay the price | M |
| God asks of pioneers now play their parts | L |
| In this stupendous drama of the age | N |
| As Followers of the Camps | O |
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| They come in the name of God our Father | B |
| They come in the name of Christ our Brother | B |
| They come in the name of All Humanity | P |
| To give their gold their labour and their love | Q |
| To help the suffering souls in this war riddled earth | R |
| The New Women of the Race | S |
| The New Camp Followers | A |
| The Centuries shall do honour to their names | T |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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