Then And Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BDBEFFGGH IJIJKKLL MNOOMPP QRSSCTU UVVWWXYMZMA2A2| A little time agone a few brief years | A |
| And there was peace within our beauteous borders | B |
| Peace and a prosperous people and no fears | A |
| Of war and its disorders | B |
| Pleasure was ruling goddess of our land with her attendant Mirth | C |
| She led a jubilant joy seeking band about the riant earth | C |
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| Do you recall those laughing days my Brothers | B |
| And those long nights that trespassed on the dawn | D |
| Those throngs of idle dancing maids and mothers | B |
| Who lilted on and on | E |
| Card mad wine flushed bejewelled and half stripped | F |
| Yet women whose sweet mouth had never sipped | F |
| From sin's black chalice women good at heart | G |
| Who in the winding maze of pleasure's mart | G |
| Had lost the sun kissed way to wholesome pleasures of an earlier day | H |
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| Oh You remember them You filled their glasses | I |
| You 'cut in' at their games of bridge you left | J |
| Your work to drop in on their dancing classes | I |
| Before the day was cleft | J |
| In twain by noontide When the night waxed late | K |
| You led your partner forth to demonstrate | K |
| The newest steps before a cheering throng | L |
| And Time and Peace danced by your side along | L |
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| Peace is a lovely word and we abhor that red word 'War' | M |
| But look ye Brothers what this war has done for daughters and for son | N |
| For manhood and for womanhood whose trend | O |
| Seemed year on year toward weakness to descend | O |
| Upon this woof of darkness and of terror woven by human error | M |
| Behold the pattern of a new race soul | P |
| And it shall last while countless ages roll | P |
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| At the loud call of drums out of the idler and the weakling comes | Q |
| The hero valiant with self sacrifice ready to pay the price | R |
| War asks of men to help a suffering world | S |
| And out of the arms of pleasure where they whirled | S |
| In wild unreasoning mirth behold the splendid women of the earth | C |
| Living new selfless lives the toiling mothers sister daughters wives | T |
| Of men gone forth as target for the foe | U |
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| Ah now we know | U |
| Man is divine we see the heavenly spark | V |
| Shining above the smoke and gloom and dark | V |
| Which was not visible in peaceful days | W |
| God wondrous are Thy ways | W |
| For out of chaos comes construction out of darkness and of doubt | X |
| And the black pit of death comes glorious faith | Y |
| From want and waste comes thrift from weakness strength and power | M |
| And to the summits men and women lift | Z |
| Their souls from self indulgence in this hour | M |
| This crucial hour of life | A2 |
| So shines the golden side of this black shield of strife | A2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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