Soldiers To Pacifists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCBDDDEFFFEGGGH IIIHJJJBKKKBNOT 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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