Only Mules Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDFGHGHIJIJKLKL| 'The submarine was quite within its rights in sinking the cargo of the Armenian mules valued at ' | A |
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| No matter we are only mules | B |
| And slow to understand | C |
| We drown according to the rules | B |
| Of war we contraband | C |
| War reckons us as shot and shell | D |
| As so much metal lost | E |
| And mourns the dollars gone to swell | D |
| The monstrous bill of cost | F |
| Would that we had been wrought of steel | G |
| And not of quivering flesh | H |
| Of iron not of nerves that feel | G |
| And maddened limbs that thresh | H |
| The sucking seas in stubborn strife | I |
| For that dim right of ours | J |
| To what no factory fashions life | I |
| No Edison endowers | J |
| Our last wild screams are choked you know | K |
| It does not matter for | L |
| We're only mules that suffered so | K |
| And contraband of war | L |
Katharine Lee Bates
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