Our Orders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| WEAVE no more silks ye Lyons looms | A |
| To deck our girls for gay delights | B |
| The crimson flower of battle blooms | A |
| And solemn marches fill the night | C |
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| Weave but the flag whose bars to day | D |
| Drooped heavy o er our early dead | E |
| And homely garments coarse and gray | D |
| For orphans that must earn their bread | E |
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| Keep back your tunes ye viols sweet | F |
| That poured delight from other lands | G |
| Rouse there the dancer s restless feet | F |
| The trumpet leads our warrior bands | G |
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| And ye that wage the war of words | H |
| With mystic fame and subtle power | I |
| Go chatter to the idle birds | H |
| Or teach the lesson of the hour | I |
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| Ye Sibyl Arts in one stern knot | J |
| Be all your offices combined | K |
| Stand close while Courage draws the lot | J |
| The destiny of human kind | K |
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| And if that destiny could fail | L |
| The sun should darken in the sky | M |
| The eternal bloom of Nature pale | L |
| And God and Truth and Freedom die | M |
Julia Ward Howe
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