Over The Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJ FLFL| Think of it think of it over the water | A |
| Thousands of men to day march on to death | B |
| Think how the sun shines on fields red with slaughter | A |
| How the air chokes with the cannon's hot breath | B |
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| How in the shadows perchance of this even | C |
| Hundreds of hearts will have paused in their beat | D |
| Pale ghastly brows will be turned up to heaven | E |
| Brows that were pressed by lips tender and sweet | D |
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| Think of the homes that these battles are leaving | F |
| Destitute desolate dreary and dumb | G |
| Think of the fond patient hearts that are grieving | F |
| Breaking for loved ones who never will come | G |
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| Ah we so recently felt this same anguish | H |
| Women Oh women who suffer and pray | I |
| We well can weep with you who weep and languish | H |
| We have borne all you are bearing to day | I |
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| 'God speed the right ' we cry 'God be with Prussia ' | - |
| Yet to the mourners of soldiers who fall | J |
| Whether their tears flow in France or in Russia | K |
| Their dead are their dead and we pity them all | J |
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| Think of it think of it hearts that are breaking | F |
| Sorrowing suffering over the sea | L |
| Think of the eyes that are blinded and aching | F |
| With watching for those whom they never will see | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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