When The Millennium Comes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEDAFAFGHGHIH AJAJKGKGLG| WHEN the Millennium comes | A |
| Only the kings will fight | B |
| While the princes beat the drums | A |
| And the queens in aprons white | B |
| Arnica bottle in hand | C |
| Watch their Majesties throw | D |
| With a gesture vague and grand | C |
| Their crowns at the dodging foe | D |
| Poor old obsolete crowns | E |
| That Time hangs up in a row | D |
| When the Millennium comes | A |
| And the proud steel navies meet | F |
| While the furious boiler hums | A |
| And the vengeful pistons beat | F |
| The sailors will stay on shore | G |
| And cheer with a polyglot shout | H |
| The self fed cannon that roar | G |
| Till metal has fought it out | H |
| But the warm glad bodies of boys | I |
| Are not for the waves to flout | H |
| When the Millennium comes | A |
| Love the mother of life | J |
| Will have worked out all the sums | A |
| Of our dim industrial strife | J |
| And every man shall be lord | K |
| Of his deed and his dream and the lore | G |
| Of war shall be abhorred | K |
| As a dragon tale of yore | G |
| Myth of the Iron Age | L |
| A monster earth breeds no more | G |
Katharine Lee Bates
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