There Is Blood On The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIH JKJK BLBM BNBN CNCN OBPB| THERE is blood on the face of the earth | A |
| It reeks through the years and is red | B |
| Where Truth was slaughtered at birth | A |
| And the veins of Liberty bled | B |
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| Lo vain is the hand that tries | C |
| To cover the crimson stain | D |
| It spreads like a plague and cries | C |
| Like a soul in writhing pain | D |
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| It wasteth the planet's flesh | E |
| It calleth on breasts of stone | F |
| God holdeth His wrath in a leash | G |
| Till the hearts of men atone | F |
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| Blind like the creatures of time | H |
| Cursed like all the race | I |
| They answer '' The blood and crime | H |
| Belong to a sect and place ' | - |
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| What are these things to Heaven | J |
| Races or places of men | K |
| The world through one Christ was forgiven | J |
| Nor question of races then | K |
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| The wrong of to day shall be rued | B |
| In a thousand coming years | L |
| The debt must be paid in blood | B |
| The interest in tears | M |
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| Shall none stand up for right | B |
| Whom the evil passes by | N |
| But God had the globe in sight | B |
| And hearkens the weak one's cry | N |
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| Wherever a principle dies | C |
| Nay principles never die | N |
| But wherever a ruler lies | C |
| And a people share the lie | N |
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| Where right is crushed by force | O |
| And manhood is stricken dead | B |
| There dwelleth the ancient curse | P |
| And the blood on the earth is red | B |
John Boyle O'reilly
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