Out Of The Ranks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH AIAJ KLKL MNMN OPOP MAMA| From the bitter fight I have made my way | A |
| To the peaceful crest of a lonely hill | B |
| But the noise and heat of the deadly fray | A |
| And the smart of wounds are with me still | B |
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| No recreant I to a noble cause | C |
| Nor traitor base to a leader bold | D |
| 'Twas a fight where he won most applause | E |
| Who captured most of his neighbor's gold | D |
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| Where the wounded crawled away to die | F |
| Or hopeless ate their bread with tears | G |
| And the only cries that rent the sky | F |
| Were the shouts of frenzied financiers | H |
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| Alas for the prematurely gray | A |
| Who struggle there through joyless lives | I |
| To win the means of more display | A |
| For thankless children thoughtless wives | J |
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| Alas for those whose spirits yearn | K |
| For leisure books and sunlit fields | L |
| Who yet can never pause to learn | K |
| The joy that a life of culture yields | L |
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| Still sway the mad crowds to and fro | M |
| I hear their groans and panting breath | N |
| The hideous impacts blow on blow | M |
| The moans of those who are crushed to death | N |
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| None stoop to lift up those who fall | O |
| A thousand leap for a vacant place | P |
| Thrust weaker thousands to the wall | O |
| And trample many an upturned face | P |
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| But I however the fight may go | M |
| Have turned my back on the sordid fray | A |
| To face the tranquil sunset glow | M |
| And hope for the dawn of a better day | A |
John L. Stoddard
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