A Triumph Of Order. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHDI JKLK MNMN OPQR SBTB UUVU WSXS DAYA| A squad of regular infantry | A |
| In the Commune's closing days | B |
| Had captured a crowd of rebels | C |
| By the wall of Pere la Chaise | B |
| - | |
| There were desperate men wild women | D |
| And dark eyed Amazon girls | E |
| And one little boy with a peach down cheek | F |
| And yellow clustering curls | E |
| - | |
| The captain seized the little waif | G |
| And said What dost thou here | H |
| Sapristi Citizen captain | D |
| I'm a Communist my dear | I |
| - | |
| Very well Then you die with the others | J |
| Very well That's my affair | K |
| But first let me take to my mother | L |
| Who lives by the wine shop there | K |
| - | |
| My father's watch You see it | M |
| A gay old thing is it not | N |
| It would please the old lady to have it | M |
| Then I'll come back here and be shot | N |
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| That is the last we shall see of him | O |
| The grizzled captain grinned | P |
| As the little man skimmed down the hill | Q |
| Like a swallow down the wind | R |
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| For the joy of killing had lost its zest | S |
| In the glut of those awful days | B |
| And Death writhed gorged like a greedy snake | T |
| From the Arch to Pere la Chaise | B |
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| But before the last platoon had fired | U |
| The child's shrill voice was heard | U |
| Houp la the old girl made such a row | V |
| I feared I should break my word | U |
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| Against the bullet pitted wall | W |
| He took his place with the rest | S |
| A button was lost from his ragged blouse | X |
| Which showed his soft white breast | S |
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| Now blaze away my children | D |
| With your little one two three | A |
| The Chassepots tore the stout young heart | Y |
| And saved Society | A |
John Milton Hay
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