Strike Hands, Young Men! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCDEEFF GGHHIJKKJGLML ANNAOOCPPQQRRRSSTT UUVVWXWXYYZZAA| Strike hands young men | A |
| We know not when | A |
| Death or disaster comes | B |
| Mightier than battle drums | B |
| To summon us away | C |
| Death bids us say farewell | D |
| To all we love nor stay | C |
| For tears and who can tell | D |
| How soon misfortune's hand | E |
| May smite us where we stand | E |
| Dragging us down aloof | F |
| Under the swift world's hoof | F |
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| Strike hands for faith and power | G |
| To gladden the passing hour | G |
| To wield the sword or raise a song | H |
| To press the grape or crush out wrong | H |
| And strengthen right | I |
| Give me the man of sturdy palm | J |
| And vigorous brain | K |
| Hearty companionable sane | K |
| 'Mid all commotions calm | J |
| Yet filled with quick enthusiastic fire | G |
| Give me the man | L |
| Whose impulses aspire | M |
| And all his features seem to say I can | L |
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| Strike hands young men | A |
| 'Tis yours to help rebuild the State | N |
| And keep the Nation great | N |
| With act and speech and pen | A |
| 'Tis yours to spread | O |
| The morning red | O |
| That ushers in a grander day | C |
| To scatter prejudice that blinds | P |
| And hail fresh thoughts in noble minds | P |
| To overthrow bland tyrannies | Q |
| That cheat the people and with slow disease | Q |
| Change the Republic to a mockery | R |
| Your words can teach that liberty | R |
| Means more than just to cry We're free | R |
| While bending to some new found yoke | S |
| So shall each unjust bond be broke | S |
| Each toiler gain his meet reward | T |
| And life sound forth a truer chord | T |
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| Ah if we so have striven | U |
| And mutually the grasp have given | U |
| Of brotherhood | V |
| To work each other and the whole race good | V |
| What matter if the dream | W |
| Come only partly true | X |
| And all the things accomplished seem | W |
| Feeble and few | X |
| At least when summer's flame burns low | Y |
| And on our heads the drifting snow | Y |
| Settles and stays | Z |
| We shall rejoice that in our earlier days | Z |
| We boldly then | A |
| Struck hands young men | A |
George Parsons Lathrop
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