The League Of Nations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH IJK LLL EEE MMM NNN OOO| Light on the towns and cities and peace for evermore | A |
| The Big Five met in the world's light as many had met before | A |
| And the future of man is settled and there shall be no more war | A |
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| The lamb shall lie down with the lion and trust with treachery | B |
| The brave man go with the coward and the chained mind shackle the free | B |
| And the truthful sit with the liar ever by land and sea | B |
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| And there shall be no more passion and no more love nor hate | C |
| No more contempt for the paltry no more respect for the great | C |
| And the people shall breed like rabbits and mate as animals mate | C |
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| For lo the Big Five have said it each with a fearsome frown | D |
| Each for his chosen country State and city and town | D |
| Each for his lawn and table and the bed where he lies him down | D |
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| Cobbler and crank and chandler magpie and ape disguised | E |
| Each bound to his grocery corner these are the Five we prized | E |
| Bleating the teaching of others whom they ever despised | E |
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| But three shall meet in a cellar companions of mildew and rats | F |
| And three shall meet in a garret pungent with stench of the cats | F |
| And three in a cave in the forest where the torchlight maddens the bats | F |
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| Bats as blind as the people streaming into the glare | G |
| And the Nine shall turn the nations back to the plain things there | G |
| Tracing in chalk and charcoal treaties that none can tear | G |
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| Truth that goes higher than airships and deeper than submarines | H |
| And a message swifter than wireless and none shall know what it means | H |
| Till an army is rushed together and ready behind the scenes | H |
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| The Big Five sit together in the light of the World and day | I |
| Each tied to his grocery corner though he travel the world for aye | J |
| Each bleating the dreams of dreamers whom he has despised alway | K |
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| And intellect shall be tortured and art destroyed for a span | L |
| The brute shall defile the pictures as he did when the age began | L |
| He shall hawk and spit in the palace to prove that he is a man | L |
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| Cobbler and crank and chandler magpie and ape disguised | E |
| Each bound to his grocery corner these are the Five we prized | E |
| Bleating the teaching of others whom they ever despised | E |
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| Let the nations scatter their armies and level their arsenals well | M |
| Let them blow their airships to Heaven and sink their warships to Hell | M |
| Let them maim the feet of the runner and silence the drum and the bell | M |
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| But shapes shall glide from the cellar who never had dared to strike | N |
| And shapes shall drop from the garret ghastly and so alike | N |
| To drag from the cave in the forest powder and cannon and pike | N |
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| As of old we are sending a message to Garcia still | O |
| Smoke from the peak by sunlight beacon by night from the hill | O |
| And the drum shall throb in the distance the drum that never was still | O |
Henry Lawson
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