For Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDBBC EFBBCGGHHC IIJJC KKHHC JJLLL HHLLL MMNOL| Flowers grow in the grass | A |
| Baby footfalls pass | A |
| Over the fields once red | B |
| Over the hero's head | B |
| For Peace | C |
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| The earth through her leafy veil | D |
| Whispers a magic tale | D |
| And the scholar reads in the clod | B |
| The latest news of God | B |
| For Peace | C |
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| Brave little wires are spun | E |
| For voices to fly upon | F |
| Words out of clouds are caught | B |
| From some witch's woof of thought | B |
| For Peace | C |
| And the cataract's foamy troubles | G |
| Illumine a million bubbles | G |
| In some city far away | H |
| Turning the night to day | H |
| For Peace | C |
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| Proud trains heralds austere | I |
| Bring far off nations near | I |
| Piercing the mountain's crown | J |
| Treading the barriers down | J |
| For Peace | C |
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| Swift ships that pound the sea | K |
| Set the earth chained spirit free | K |
| Show the whole round world unrolled | H |
| Before the young moon grows old | H |
| For Peace | C |
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| And the white winged aeroplane | J |
| Laughs in its mad disdain | J |
| At limits and barricades | L |
| And cruisers and cavalcades | L |
| For Peace | L |
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| Even the war engines dread | H |
| The guns with bomb shells fed | H |
| The grim gray battle ships | L |
| Shout through their iron lips | L |
| For Peace | L |
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| Oh never a hero's grave | M |
| But for Peace his life he gave | M |
| And the warrior bears his scar | N |
| And the poet sings of war | O |
| For Peace | L |
Harriet Monroe
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