Freedom's Battle-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFEDDDFAAGGDEFE DDDFAHIJIDEFEDDDF| RED white blue the flag that leads us on | A |
| Stripes as red as blood well shed by many a hero gone | B |
| Now 'tis ours to storm the towers of tyranny and wrong | C |
| Freedom's sons who front the guns with Freedom's battle song | C |
| Fly the flag from dome and steeple | D |
| Fly the flag from home and school | E |
| Flag of Freedom's birth | F |
| While we battle that the rule | E |
| Of the people | D |
| By the people | D |
| For the people | D |
| Shall prevail o'er all the earth | F |
| Red white blue the flag that leads us on | A |
| White as peace for whose release our fighting gear we don | A |
| Peace enchained crushed profaned shall yet in beauty stand | G |
| Yet shall bless with fruitfulness her desolated land | G |
| Fly the flag from dome and steeple | D |
| Fly the flag from home and school | E |
| Flag of Freedom's birth | F |
| While we battle that the rule | E |
| Of the people | D |
| By the people | D |
| For the people | D |
| Shall prevail o'er all the earth | F |
| Red white blue the flag that leads us on | A |
| Blue as skies whose starry eyes shall see our victory won | H |
| Freedom's sons and champions to her our hearts are true | I |
| We who fight for Human Right and the Red | J |
| White Blue | I |
| Fly the flag from dome and steeple | D |
| Fly the flag from home and school | E |
| Flag of Freedom's birth | F |
| While we battle that the rule | E |
| Of the people | D |
| By the people | D |
| For the people | D |
| Shall prevail o'er all the earth | F |
Katharine Lee Bates
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