The Call Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNF OPQFRSBA| I hear an Army | A |
| Millions of men coming up from the edge of the world | B |
| The ring of unnumbered feet ever louder and louder | C |
| Comes on and an like a mighty untameable tide | D |
| Steady implacable out of the North and the South | E |
| Out of the East and the West they answer the call | F |
| Of her who stands her eyes towards God and the stars | G |
| Liberty daughter of God calling her men | H |
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| What manner of men are these Like the desert sands | I |
| Uncounted many as locusts darkening the sky | J |
| White men black men men of the tawny gold | K |
| Golden eyed like the lion sons of the sun | L |
| Men from the snow their eyes like frost or a sword | M |
| They have but one heart one desire they run one way | N |
| Hurrying hurrying to the shrill trumpet call | F |
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| Men from the ice floes men from the jungles come | O |
| This from the arms of his bride that from his dead | P |
| Men from the plough the mart the mill and the street | Q |
| They run they are heroes the fire fuses them all | F |
| Head uplifted and proud like heroes they step | R |
| Singing their battle song in the troubled dawn | S |
| Of the day of Liberty flaming torch of the world | B |
| I hear an Army | A |
Katharine Tynan
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