God And The Right Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF GHIHJKJC CLMLNCCC OCPCCCQC CRCRDSCTC CLCUVCCNCn not the mark of the beast | A |
By marching her power the State to secure | B |
Of blood imbued wolf of the East | A |
The Bulgarian he and Servian dree | B |
Such wrongs from their foeman as might | C |
Cause stones could they speak to cry 'for the | D |
weak | E |
Be thou and for God and the Right ' | F |
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Such horrific crimes belong to past times | G |
The coldest and hardest heart bleeds | H |
A blush for our race be crimsons each face | I |
When named are the Turk and his deeds | H |
Too awful are they to utter nor may | J |
Men know them and know a respite | K |
From heart ache till they have armed for the fray | J |
And battle for God and the Right | C |
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An unbounded thirst for lucre accurst | C |
The helpless must sate even so | L |
In this should they fail they're fated to wail | M |
The blood bringing lash of the foe | L |
In glee will the Turk his victim so work | N |
Such anguish inflict at the sight | C |
The veriest serf grasps his sabre resolved | C |
To battle for God and the Right | C |
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See dearer than life the daughter and wife | O |
A prey to the torturer's lust | C |
The Rayah heart torn yet ridiculed mourn | P |
His losses 'mid ashes and dust | C |
His dear home despoiled his dear ones defiled | C |
A wreck what was once his delight | C |
What wonder if he in delirium flee | Q |
To battle for God and the Right | C |
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The temple is burned the altar's o'erturned | C |
With blood the street runnelets run | R |
The prey bird and beast hie swiftly to feast | C |
On corpses that rot in the sun | R |
The ban dog's harsh tones while crashing the | D |
bones | S |
Are heard by the brave in the night | C |
But heard with a cry death to hear and they fly | T |
To battle for God and the Right | C |
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For God and the Right the Rebel States fight | C |
And whate'er the sequel oh oh | L |
If thou too must fight for God and the Right | C |
Fight thou in the vanguard fight thou | U |
The gold kings may howl and threaten and scowl | V |
Yet hold to thy purpose and smite | C |
Smite thou the proud Turk till he finds 'tis bad | C |
work | N |
To war against God and the Right | C |
Joseph Skipsey
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