The Paean Of Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI HJHJEKEK LALALMLM NMOMPLPL| With ever some wrong to be righting | A |
| With self ever seeking for place | B |
| The world has been striving and fighting | A |
| Since man was evolved out of space | B |
| Bold history into dark regions | C |
| His torchlight has fearlessly cast | D |
| He shows us tribes warring in legions | C |
| In jungles of ages long passed | D |
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| Religion forgetting her station | E |
| Forgetting her birthright from God | F |
| Set nation to warring with nation | E |
| And scattered dissension abroad | G |
| Dear creeds have made men kill each other | H |
| Fair faith has bred hate and despair | I |
| And brother has battled with brother | H |
| Because of a difference in prayer | I |
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| But earth has grown wiser and kinder | H |
| For man is evolving a soul | J |
| From wars of an age that was blinder | H |
| We rise to a peace girdled goal | J |
| Where once men would murder in treason | E |
| And slaughter each other in hordes | K |
| They now meet together and reason | E |
| With thoughts for their weapons not swords | K |
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| The brute in humanity dwindles | L |
| And lessens as time speeds along | A |
| And the spark of Divinity kindles | L |
| And blazes up brightly and strong | A |
| The seer can behold in the distance | L |
| The race that shall people the world | M |
| Strong men of a godlike existence | L |
| Unarmed and with war banners furled | M |
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| No longer the bloodthirsty savage | N |
| Man's vast spirit strength shall unfold | M |
| And tales of red warfare and ravage | O |
| Shall seem like ghost stories of old | M |
| For the booming of guns and the rattle | P |
| Of carnage and conflict shall cease | L |
| And the bugle call leading to battle | P |
| Shall change to a paean of peace | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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