Peace Should Not Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHGIJJI KK| Peace should not come along this foul earth way | A |
| Peace should not come until we cleanse the path | B |
| God waited for us now in awful wrath | B |
| He pours the blood of men out day by day | A |
| To purify the highroad for her feet | C |
| Why what would Peace do in a world where hearts | D |
| Are filled with thoughts like poison pointed darts | D |
| It were not meet surely it were not meet | C |
| For Peace to come and with her white robes hide | E |
| These industries of death these guns and swords | F |
| These uniformed hate filled destructive hordes | F |
| These hideous things that are each nation's pride | E |
| So long as men believe in armed might | G |
| Let arms be brandished Let not Peace be sought | H |
| Until the race heart empties out all thought | H |
| Of blows and blood as arguments for Right | G |
| The world has never had enough of war | I |
| Else war were not Now let the monster stand | J |
| Until he slays himself with his own hand | J |
| Though no man knows what he is fighting for | I |
| Then in the place where wicked cannons stood | K |
| Let Peace erect her shrine of Brotherhood | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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