Children Of The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCCBCBDEDE| SHRUNKEN little bodies pallid baby faces | A |
| Eyes of staring terror innocence defiled | B |
| Tiny bones that strew the sand of silent places | A |
| This upon our own star where Jesus was a child | B |
| Broken buds of April is there any garden | C |
| Where they yet may blossom comforted of sun | C |
| While their sad Creator bows to ask their pardon | C |
| For the life He gave them life and death in one | C |
| Spared by steel and hunger still shall horror blazon | C |
| Those white and tender spirits with anguish unforgot | B |
| Half a century hence the haggard look shall gaze on | C |
| The outrage of a mother shall see a grandsire shot | B |
| Man who wings the azure lassoes the hoof sparkling | D |
| Fire maned steeds of glory and binds them to his car | E |
| Cannot man whose searchlight leaves no horizon darkling | D |
| Safeguard little children upon our golden star | E |
Katharine Lee Bates
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