Moloch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD AEAE FDFD| Old Moloch walks the way tonight | A |
| On Flander's poppied field | B |
| Where foe meets foe in steel and might | A |
| And never one shall yield | B |
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| Old Moloch of the fiery shrine | C |
| Deep in the throes of pain | D |
| Cries for the bleeding anodyne | D |
| Of flesh of youths again | D |
| - | |
| Heart of my heart went out tonight | A |
| Where Moloch holds the way | E |
| To lads of brown and black and white | A |
| Who blazon Freedom's day | E |
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| Tear down the shrine of Moloch there | F |
| From crimson field and glen | D |
| Tear down the shrine of Moloch where | F |
| It shames the hearts of men | D |
Joseph Seamon Cotter
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