The Submarine That Sank The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA B ACACADADEFEFGHGHICIC| SPINDRIFT white shall her victims stand | A |
| On the ivory quay untrod | A |
| By living feet when she nears Ghoststrand | A |
| To point her out to God | A |
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| The Babies Of The 'Lusitania' | B |
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| THOSE rosy dimpled darlings cast | A |
| So roughly to the sea | C |
| Wondering their bathtub was so vast | A |
| Reaching for breast and knee | C |
| Too innocent to understand | A |
| What hate and murder are | D |
| But puzzled that the dandling hand | A |
| Had let them drop so far | D |
| Swallowing like milk the bitter foam | E |
| Dismayed to miss their breath | F |
| Our little guests from Heaven went home | E |
| In the great arms of Death | F |
| O Land of Toys and Christmas Trees | G |
| Dear Land of Fairy Tales | H |
| How will your heart be panged for these | G |
| When war's red frenzy pales | H |
| God pity Germany in all | I |
| The grieving years to be | C |
| When through her cradle songs shall call | I |
| Drowned babies from the sea | C |
Katharine Lee Bates
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