Marching Feet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEBFDGHIJKFKGKIL EHLLBEFFEJJBJ| THESE August nights hushed but for drowsy peep | A |
| Of fledglings tremble with a strange vibration | B |
| A sound too far for hearing sullen dire | C |
| Shaking the earth | D |
| Even within the swaying veils of sleep | A |
| We are haunted by a horror a mistrust | E |
| A muffled perturbation | B |
| Vaguely aware | F |
| Of prodigies in birth | D |
| Of brooding thunders unbelievable | G |
| Fierce forces that conspire | H |
| Against mankind | I |
| We start awake | J |
| The purple glooms all sweet | K |
| With dewy fragrance bear | F |
| Our eyelids down but still we feel the beat | K |
| Dull doomful irretrievable | G |
| Of Europe's marching feet | K |
| Enchanted blind | I |
| By wizard music led | L |
| Over crushed blossoms through the mocking dust | E |
| To baths of blood and fire | H |
| Beyond the seas in these hushed hills we dread | L |
| That hollow rhythmic tread | L |
| Of nation against nation | B |
| That ancient bitter thrust | E |
| Of war against a world that might be fair | F |
| As any golden star that rides the air | F |
| We cannot rest for marching feet that must | E |
| Harvest and home forsake | J |
| Inexorably called to take | J |
| The road of desolation | B |
| Trampling on hearts that break | J |
Katharine Lee Bates
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