A Toast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JIJI HKHK IJIJ| Not your martyrs anointed of heaven | A |
| The ages are red where they trod | B |
| But the Hunted the world's bitter leaven | A |
| Who smote at your imbecile God | B |
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| A being to pander and fawn to | C |
| To propitiate flatter and dread | D |
| As a thing that your souls are in pawn to | C |
| A Dealer who traffics the dead | D |
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| A Trader with greed never sated | E |
| Who barters the souls in his snares | F |
| That were trapped in the lusts he created | G |
| For incense and masses and prayers | F |
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| They are crushed in the coils of your halters | H |
| 'Twere well by the creeds ye have nursed | I |
| That ye send up a cry from your altars | H |
| A mass for the Martyrs Accursed | I |
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| A passionate prayer from reprieval | J |
| For the Brotherhood not understood | I |
| For the Heroes who died for the evil | J |
| Believing the evil was good | I |
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| To the Breakers the Bold the Despoilers | H |
| Who dreamed of a world over thrown | K |
| They who died for the millions of toilers | H |
| Few fronting the nations alone | K |
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| To the Outlawed of men and the Branded | I |
| Whether hated or hating they fell | J |
| I pledge the devoted red handed | I |
| Unfaltering Heroes of Hell | J |
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