Hymn To The God Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JKLJLK MNJMJJ JOJJJO GPGPQLQLL RSRSTUTUV| From every quarter we | A |
| Who bent the trembling knee | A |
| And cowered or grovelled prostrate day and night | B |
| Now come once more to sing | C |
| A dirge before thee King | C |
| Once more with earnest heart to do thee right | B |
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| Have we not hailed thee God | D |
| Our weary feet have trod | D |
| The vasty barren sands and treacherous ice | E |
| With many a bitter cry | F |
| To pile thine altar high | F |
| With pallid human hearts in sacrifice | E |
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| We hated thee and came | G |
| With eyes of shifty shame | G |
| With heavy steel above the craven breast | H |
| Yet evermore we did | I |
| The ill thy servants bid | I |
| For everywhere thy might was manifest | H |
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| At thy sibilant word | J |
| We were filled with distrust | K |
| And we glared on each other | L |
| All horribly stirred | J |
| Against sister and brother | L |
| Our green hopes were wilted and riven our red running blood was as dust | K |
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| And a foul poison ran | M |
| Through the veins of the world | N |
| And we waited and wondered | J |
| By magical ban | M |
| We were cruelly sundered | J |
| Then a maniac hatred upcaught us and deep into hell we were hurled | J |
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| We have crept to thee God | J |
| In the day of thy wrath | O |
| We have wept we have fasted | J |
| We have crimsoned the sod | J |
| That thy worship has blasted | J |
| And have seen thee stalk pale and triumphant where nations fell flat in thy path | O |
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| Yet out of the dust and the flame | G |
| The squalor and muddle of crime | P |
| A red waving blossom there came | G |
| And a scent on the tempest of time | P |
| Heroic and splendid we threw | Q |
| Our lives to be oil in the fire | L |
| But a marvel of fellowship grew | Q |
| As the blaze bickered broader and higher | L |
| And the soul of a people stood up and spoke to us all from the pyre | L |
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| And lo we are come to thy shrine | R |
| O God but we ask for no grace | S |
| For our hearts are made glad with a wine | R |
| That is death to the craven and base | S |
| And thy shrine shall be burnt for our mirth | T |
| And thine altar be turned to thy bier | U |
| For if Love be our Lord upon earth | T |
| What corner is left for thee here | U |
| The veil of thy temple is rent and behold thou hast vanished O Fear | V |
John Le Gay Brereton
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