Soldiers To Pacifists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCBDDDEFFFEGGGH IIIHJJJBKKKB| NOT ours to clamor shame on you | A |
| Nor fling a bitter blame on you | A |
| Nor brand a cruel name on you | A |
| That evil name of treason | B |
| You who have heard the ivory flutes | C |
| Who float white banners brave recruits | C |
| Of Peace seeking to pluck her fruits | C |
| In bud and blossom season | B |
| A sterner bugle calls to us | D |
| More direful duty falls to us | D |
| God grants no garden walls to us | D |
| Till the scarred waste be delivered | E |
| From dragon passions that destroy | F |
| All sanctitudes of faith and joy | F |
| We too are on divine employ | F |
| By sword shall sword be shivered | E |
| Cherish your bud star eyed of bloom | G |
| Dawn flower of hope belied of gloom | G |
| While surges of the tide of doom | G |
| The gathering nations thunder | H |
| Against a red colossal throne | I |
| Cherish it that the seed be sown | I |
| At last even where that monstrous stone | I |
| Crushes life's roots asunder | H |
| Follow your flutes the fairy way | J |
| Wing sandaled climb the airy way | J |
| The wonderful unwary way | J |
| Too lovely for derision | B |
| While we your comrades at the goal | K |
| Step to the drum beat and unroll | K |
| The flag of Freedom every soul | K |
| Obedient to its vision | B |
Katharine Lee Bates
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