Arms And The Man. - The Ravages Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGI JKJK ELEL MNMN| This on the water on the land a scene | A |
| Whose Epic scope is far beyond my power | B |
| For on this spot a People's fate hath been | C |
| Decided in an hour | B |
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| Long was the conflict waged through weary years | D |
| Counted from when the sturdy farmers fell | E |
| Hopes crucified red trenches bitter tears | F |
| Made Man another hell | E |
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| See pallid women girt in woe and weeds | G |
| See little children gaunt for lack of food | H |
| Behold the catalogue of War's black deeds | G |
| Where evil stands for good | I |
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| See slaughtered cattle never more to roam | J |
| Rot in the fields while chimneys tall and bare | K |
| Tell in dumb pathos how some quiet home | J |
| Lit up the midnight air | K |
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| See that burnt crop yon choked up sylvan well | E |
| This yeoman slain ye corven in the sun | L |
| My GOD shreds of a woman's dress to tell | E |
| Why murder there was done | L |
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| Such things as these gave edge to all the blows | M |
| Our fathers struck on this historic sod | N |
| Feet hands and faces turned toward their foes | M |
| Their valiant hearts to GOD | N |
James Barron Hope
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