War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEFDDF A GHHGGHHG IDJKDJ| I | A |
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| The beast exultant spreads the nostril wide | B |
| Snuffing a sickly hate enkindling scent | C |
| Proud of his rage on sudden carnage bent | C |
| He leaps and flings the helpless guard aside | B |
| Again again the hills are gapped and dyed | B |
| Again the hearts of waiting women spent | C |
| Is there no cooler pathway to content | C |
| Can we not heal the insanity of pride | B |
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| Silence the crackle and thunder of battling guns | D |
| And drive your men to strategy of peace | E |
| Crush ere its birth the hell begotten crime | F |
| Still there's a war that no true warrior shuns | D |
| That knows no mercy looks for no surcease | D |
| But ghastlier battles victories more sublime | F |
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| II | A |
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| Envy has slid in silence to its hole | G |
| And Peace is basking where the workers meet | H |
| And fire has purged the fever of the street | H |
| Where raucous tradesmen grinned and gave and stole | G |
| Yet louder now the tides of battle roll | G |
| With cheer or sob of charge or stern retreat | H |
| And sullen thud and rumble of cannon beat | H |
| About the heights and passes of the soul | G |
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| Not only that amid the hush we hear | I |
| The sounds that once were blurred by market cries | D |
| Or classes wrangling in affairs of state | J |
| But forces now set free from sordid fear | K |
| No longer work as Mammon's murdering spies | D |
| But storm the very citadels of hate | J |
John Le Gay Brereton
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