Nemesis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDD EEFFGG HHIIGG JJKKLL MNOOPP QQRRSS OTUUOT VVWWXY| A | |
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| It is night time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt | B |
| When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt | B |
| When the love wrong is accomplished And I think of things and mark | C |
| That the blackest lies are written told and printed after dark | C |
| Tis the time of late editions It is night when as of old | D |
| Foulest things are done for hatred for ambition love and gold | D |
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| Racing from the senseless city down the dull suburban streets | E |
| Come again the ragged newsboys yelping with their paltry sheets | E |
| Lying posters meaning nothing double columns meaning less | F |
| Twisted facts and reckless falsehoods dodges of the Daily Press | F |
| In the town the roar and rattle of the great machines once more | G |
| Greedy for the extra penny while the Public howls for war | G |
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| War because of one poor blunder made in panic far away | H |
| While a thousand men were lying on the battlefield to day | H |
| Dead heaped on the helpless dying blinded eyes and brains that swim | I |
| Parched or choked with their own life blood battered head and broken limb | I |
| Wounds too ghastly to be pictured Things to seem like men no more | G |
| Crying out to Christ for water and oblivion that is war | G |
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| And the poets of the nation singing birds or carrion birds | J |
| Bluff with cheap alliteration and the boom of empty words | J |
| Catch the crowd with cheating phrases as a jingo laureate flings | K |
| Recklessly his high defiance in the grinning teeth of Things | K |
| They pretend to lead who follow this day s crowd with lying tact | L |
| Let them fling their high defiance in the stony face of Fact | L |
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| And so Russia maimed and baited seeing nought but storm to come | M |
| Sailed upon a desperate venture cursed by treachery at home | N |
| Seeing danger in each shadow thinking doubtless now and then | O |
| Of the swift fate of her warship with its seven hundred men | O |
| And she struck out in the darkness at the ally of her foe | P |
| Struck out blindly as a wounded dying bear might strike a blow | P |
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| Ah we well might howl for vengeance we who killed for killing s sake | Q |
| Murdered helpless men in daylight in cold blood by no mistake | Q |
| We who burnt the homes of women when the nights were cold and damp | R |
| We who murdered little children in the concentration camp | R |
| When the farmers downed the lion for a season in his pride | S |
| Say did Russia take advantage then while England s hands were tied | S |
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| Wipe away the blood that binds you struggle to your feet again | O |
| Shake them from your shoulders Ivan Ivan nearly mad with pain | T |
| You must fight it single handed on the deck or in the trench | U |
| Look not to the boorish German Look not to the fickle French | U |
| Rather look to blinded England when her sight is clear again | O |
| And remember in the future there is chivalry in Spain | T |
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| Scoff at Russia on the ocean and her helplessness forget | V |
| But on land the braggart Mongol has not done with Ivan yet | V |
| He s a fierce and cruel tyrant we are not as others are | W |
| But his slaves would die by thousands for their country and the Czar | W |
| While a single broken column drags a battery through the mire | X |
| And a single battered cruiser has a gun that she can fire | Y |
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