The Crimes Of Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJKKL LMNONGPQQQQRRDD STUUVVV WWXXYY EE| Musing upon the tragedies of earth | A |
| Of each new horror which each hour gives birth | A |
| Of sins that scar and cruelties that blight | B |
| Life's little season meant for man's delight | B |
| Methought those monstrous and repellent crimes | C |
| Which hate engenders in war heated times | C |
| To God's great heart bring not so much despair | D |
| As other sins which flourish everywhere | D |
| And in all times bold sins bare faced and proud | E |
| Unchecked by college and by Church allowed | E |
| Lifting their lusty heads like ugly weeds | F |
| Above wise precepts and religious creeds | F |
| And growing rank in prosperous days of peace | G |
| Think you the evils of this world would cease | G |
| With war's cessation | H |
| If God's eyes know tears | I |
| Methinks He weeps more for the wasted years | J |
| And the lost meaning of this earthly life | K |
| This big brief life than over bloody strife | K |
| Yea there are mean lean sins God must abhor | L |
| More than the fatted blood drunk monster War | L |
| Looking from His place looking from His high place among the stars God saw a peaceful land | M |
| A land of fertile fields and golden harvests and great cities whose innumerable spires pierced the vault of heaven like bayonets of an invading army | N |
| And God said speaking unto Himself aloud God said | O |
| 'Peace and power and plenty have I given unto this land and those tall steeples are monuments to Me | N |
| Now let My people reveal themselves that I may see their works done in My name in a fertile land of peace | G |
| I will withdraw Mine eyes from other worlds that I may behold them that I may behold these people to whom I sent Christ they whose innumerable spires pierce My blue vault like bayonets ' | P |
| God saw the restless idle rich in club and cabaret | Q |
| Meat gorged wine filled they played and preened and danced till dawn o' day | Q |
| They played at sports they played at love they played at being gay | Q |
| They were but empty silk clad shells their souls had leaked away | Q |
| He saw the sweat shop and the mill where little children toiled | R |
| The sunless rooms where mothers slaved and unborn souls were spoiled | R |
| While those whose greedy selfish lives had thrust the toilers there | D |
| He saw whirled down broad avenues clothed all with raiment fair | D |
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| He saw in homes made beautiful with all that gold can give | S |
| Unhappy souls at odds with life not knowing how to live | T |
| He saw fair pampered women turn from motherhood's sweet joy | U |
| Obsessed with methods to prevent or mania to destroy | U |
| He saw men sell their souls to vice and avarice and greed | V |
| He heard race quarrelling with race and creed decrying creed | V |
| And shameful wealth and waste He saw and shameful want and need | V |
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| He saw bold little children come from church and schoolroom blind | W |
| To suffering of lesser things unfeeling and unkind | W |
| He heard them taunt the poor and tease their furred and feathered kin | X |
| And no voice spake from home or church to tell them this was sin | X |
| He heard the cry of wounded things the wasteful gun's report | Y |
| He saw the morbid craze to kill which Christian men called sport | Y |
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| And then God hid His grieving face behind a wall of cloud | E |
| On earth they said 'A thunder storm' but God had wept aloud | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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