A Cry To Arms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP QRQRSHSH ABABTUTU| Ho woodsmen of the mountain side | A |
| Ho dwellers in the vales | B |
| Ho ye who by the chafing tide | A |
| Have roughened in the gales | B |
| Leave barn and byre leave kin and cot | C |
| Lay by the bloodless spade | D |
| Let desk and case and counter rot | C |
| And burn your books of trade | D |
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| The despot roves your fairest lands | E |
| And till he flies or fears | F |
| Your fields must grow but arm ed bands | E |
| Your sheaves be sheaves of spears | F |
| Give up to mildew and to rust | G |
| The useless tools of gain | H |
| And feed your country's sacred dust | G |
| With floods of crimson rain | H |
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| Come with the weapons at your call | I |
| With musket pike or knife | J |
| He wields the deadliest blade of all | I |
| Who lightest holds his life | J |
| The arm that drives its unbought blows | K |
| With all a patriot's scorn | L |
| Might brain a tyrant with a rose | K |
| Or stab him with a thorn | L |
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| Does any falter let him turn | M |
| To some brave maiden's eyes | N |
| And catch the holy fires that burn | M |
| In those sublunar skies | N |
| Oh could you like your women feel | O |
| And in their spirit march | P |
| A day might see your lines of steel | O |
| Beneath the victor's arch | P |
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| What hope O God would not grow warm | Q |
| When thoughts like these give cheer | R |
| The Lily calmly braves the storm | Q |
| And shall the Palm tree fear | R |
| No rather let its branches court | S |
| The rack that sweeps the plain | H |
| And from the Lily's regal port | S |
| Learn how to breast the strain | H |
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| Ho woodsmen of the mountain side | A |
| Ho dwellers in the vales | B |
| Ho ye who by the roaring tide | A |
| Have roughened in the gales | B |
| Come flocking gayly to the fight | T |
| From forest hill and lake | U |
| We battle for our Country's right | T |
| And for the Lily's sake | U |
Henry Timrod
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