The Poet's Theme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DD EE FF GH II FF JJ KK LL F MM NN OO| Why should the poet of these pregnant times | A |
| Be asked to sing of war's unholy crimes | A |
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| To laud and eulogise the trade which thrives | B |
| On horrid holocausts of human lives | C |
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| Man was a fighting beast when earth was young | D |
| And war the only theme when Homer sung | D |
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| 'Twixt might and might the equal contest lay | E |
| Not so the battles of our modern day | E |
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| Too often now the conquering hero struts | F |
| A Gulliver among the Lilliputs | F |
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| Success no longer rests on skill or fate | G |
| But on the movements of a syndicate | H |
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| Of old men fought and deemed it right and just | I |
| To day the warrior fights because he must | I |
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| And in his secret soul feels shame because | F |
| He desecrates the higher manhood's laws | F |
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| Oh there are worthier themes for poet's pen | J |
| In this great hour than bloody deeds of men | J |
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| The rights of many not the worth of one | K |
| The coming issues not the battle done | K |
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| The awful opulence and awful need | L |
| The rise of brotherhood the fall of greed | L |
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| The soul of man replete with God's own force | F |
| The call 'to heights ' and not the cry 'to horse ' | - |
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| Are there not better themes in this great age | M |
| For pen of poet or for voice of sage | M |
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| Than those old tales of killing Song is dumb | N |
| Only that greater song in time may come | N |
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| When comes the bard he whom the world waits for | O |
| He will not sing of War | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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