The Pity Of It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CDEEEEFECEFEEEE EE BB G EE HIJEIJKLHEKIELI MM EE| I In South Africa | A |
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| Over the lonesome African plain | B |
| The stars look down like eyes of the slain | B |
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| A bumping ride across gullies and ruts | C |
| Now a grumble and now a jest | D |
| A bit of profanity jolted out | E |
| Whist | E |
| Into a hornet's nest | E |
| Curse on the scout | E |
| Long bearded Boers rising out of the rocks | F |
| Rocks that already are crimson splashed | E |
| Ping ping of bullets stabbings and cuts | C |
| As if hell hurtled and hissed | E |
| Then muffling the shocks | F |
| A sting in the breast | E |
| A mist | E |
| A woman's face down the darkness flashed | E |
| Rest | E |
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| All as before save for still forms spread | E |
| Under the boulders dripping red | E |
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| Over the lonesome African plain | B |
| The stars look down like eyes of the slain | B |
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| II In the Philippines | G |
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| Silvery rice fields whisper wide | E |
| How for home and freedom their owners died | E |
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| We've set the torch to their bamboo town | H |
| And out they come in a scampering rush | I |
| Little brown men with spears | J |
| Shoot | E |
| Down they go in a crush | I |
| Sickening smears | J |
| Hideous writhing huddles and heaps | K |
| Under the palms and the mango trees | L |
| More still more Shoot 'em down | H |
| Like brown jack rabbits that scoot | E |
| With comical leaps | K |
| Out of the brush | I |
| No loot | E |
| No prisoners then As for these | L |
| Hush | I |
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| The flag that dreamed of delivering | M |
| Shudders and droops like a broken wing | M |
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| Silvery rice felds whisper wide | E |
| How for home and freedom their owners died | E |
Katharine Lee Bates
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