Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying, Said Capt. Phillips, In The Spanish-american War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH DJKJ ALIL MENE GOPO GQAQ GRRR GSMT GQAQDo not cheer for men are dying | A |
From their distant homes in pain | B |
And the restless sea is darkened | C |
By a flood of crimson rain | B |
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Do not cheer for anxious mothers | D |
Wait and watch in lonely dread | E |
Vainly waiting for the footsteps | F |
Never more their paths to tread | E |
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Do not cheer while little children | G |
Gather round the widowed wife | H |
Wondering why an unknown people | I |
Sought their own dear father's life | H |
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Do not cheer for aged fathers | D |
Bend above their staves and weep | J |
While the ocean sings the requiem | K |
Where their fallen children sleep | J |
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Do not cheer for lips are paling | A |
On which lay the mother's kiss | L |
'Mid the dreadful roar of battle | I |
How that mother's hand they miss | L |
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Do not cheer once joyous maidens | M |
Who the mazy dance did tread | E |
Bow their heads in bitter anguish | N |
Mourning o'er their cherished dead | E |
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Do not cheer while maid and matron | G |
In this strife must bear a part | O |
While the blow that strikes a soldier | P |
Reaches to some woman's heart | O |
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Do not cheer till arbitration | G |
O'er the nations holds its sway | Q |
And the century now closing | A |
Ushers in a brighter day | Q |
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Do not cheer until the nation | G |
Shall more wise and thoughtful grow | R |
Than to staunch a stream of sorrow | R |
By an avalanche of woe | R |
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Do not cheer until each nation | G |
Sheathes the sword and blunts the spear | S |
And we sing aloud for gladness | M |
Lo the reign of Christ is here | T |
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And the banners of destruction | G |
From the battlefield are furled | Q |
And the peace of God descending | A |
Rests upon a restless world | Q |
Frances E. W. Harper
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