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 GQAQ| Do 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 Ellen Watkins Harper
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