Disarmament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGH IIJJKLMMNNOOPQQPGGRR| Put up the sword The voice of Christ once more | A |
| Speaks in the pauses of the cannon's roar | A |
| O'er fields of corn by fiery sickles reaped | B |
| And left dry ashes over trenches heaped | B |
| With nameless dead o'er cities starving slow | C |
| Under a rain of fire through wards of woe | C |
| Down which a groaning diapason runs | D |
| From tortured brothers husbands lovers sons | D |
| Of desolate women in their far off homes | E |
| Waiting to hear the step that never comes | F |
| O men and brothers let that voice be heard | G |
| War fails try peace put up the useless sword | H |
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| Fear not the end There is a story told | I |
| In Eastern tents when autumn nights grow cold | I |
| And round the fire the Mongol shepherds sit | J |
| With grave responses listening unto it | J |
| Once on the errands of his mercy bent | K |
| Buddha the holy and benevolent | L |
| Met a fell monster huge and fierce of look | M |
| Whose awful voice the hills and forests shook | M |
| O son of peace the giant cried thy fate | N |
| Is sealed at last and love shall yield to hate | N |
| The unarmed Buddha looking with no trace | O |
| Of fear and anger in the monster's face | O |
| In pity said Poor fiend even thee I love | P |
| Lo as he spake the sky tall terror sank | Q |
| To hand breadth size the huge abhorrence shrank | Q |
| Into the form and fashion of a dove | P |
| And where the thunder of its rage was heard | G |
| Circling above him sweetly sang the bird | G |
| Hate hath no harm for love so ran the song | R |
| And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong | R |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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