Mobilisation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCBDBE AFFGGBBDDH| Oh the Kings of earth have mobilised their men | A |
| See them moving valour proving | B |
| To the fields of glory going | B |
| Banners flowing bugles blowing | B |
| Every one a mother's son | C |
| Brave with uniform and gun | C |
| Keeping step with easy swing | B |
| Yes with easy step and light marching onward to the fight | D |
| Just to please the warlike fancy of a King | B |
| Who has mobilised his army for the strife | E |
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| Oh the King of Death has mobilised his men | A |
| See the hearses huge and black | F |
| How they rumble down the track | F |
| With their coffins filled with dead | G |
| Filled with men who fought and bled | G |
| Now from fields of glory coming | B |
| To the sound of muffled drumming | B |
| They are lying still and white | D |
| But the Kings have had their fight | D |
| Death has mobilised his army for the grave | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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