War-music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDCD EFFGGHHHAAG EEIJKLLKMMK ANONPQQRRPPPPSSTTUUV WVW XXHMMH YZYZA2A2B2B2Break off Dance no more | A |
Danger is at the door | A |
Music is in arms | B |
To signal war's alarms | B |
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Hark a sudden trumpet calling | C |
Over the hill | D |
Why are you calling trumpet calling | C |
What is your will | D |
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Men men men | E |
Men who are ready to fight | F |
For their country's life and the right | F |
Of a liberty loving land to be | G |
Free free free | G |
Free from a tyrant's chain | H |
Free from dishonor's stain | H |
Free to guard and maintain | H |
All that her fathers fought for | A |
All that her sons have wrought for | A |
Resolute brave and free | G |
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Call again trumpet call again | E |
Call up the men | E |
Do you hear the storm of cheers | I |
Mingled with the women's tears | J |
And the tramp tramp tramp of marching feet | K |
Do you hear the throbbing drum | L |
As the hosts of battle come | L |
Keeping time time time to its beat | K |
O Music give a song | M |
To make their spirit strong | M |
For the fury of the tempest they must meet | K |
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The hoarse roar | A |
Of the monster guns | N |
And the sharp bark | O |
Of the lesser guns | N |
The whine of the shells | P |
The rifles' clatter | Q |
Where the bullets patter | Q |
The rattle rattle rattle | R |
Of the mitrailleuse in battle | R |
And the yells | P |
Of the men who charge through hells | P |
Where the poison gas descends | P |
And the bursting shrapnel rends | P |
Limb from limb | S |
In the dim | S |
Chaos and clamor of the strife | T |
Where no man thinks of his life | T |
But only of fighting through | U |
Blindly fighting through through | U |
'Tis done | V |
At last | W |
The victory won | V |
The dissonance of warfare past | W |
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O Music mourn the dead | X |
Whose loyal blood was shed | X |
And sound the taps for every hero slain | H |
Then lead into the song | M |
That made their spirit strong | M |
And tell the world they did not die in vain | H |
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Thank God we can see in the glory of morn | Y |
The invincible flag that our fathers defended | Z |
And our hearts can repeat what the heroes have sworn | Y |
That war shall not end till the war lust is ended | Z |
Then the bloodthirsty sword shall no longer be lord | A2 |
Of the nations oppressed by the conqueror's horde | A2 |
But the banners of freedom shall peacefully wave | B2 |
O'er the world of the free and the lands of the brave | B2 |
Henry Van Dyke
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