Reveille Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGHEE EIEJJEE EKEELMNEO EPOPEEQ EQRBEDE EMEEEOES| Come forth you workers | A |
| Let the fires go cold | B |
| Let the iron spill out out of the troughs | C |
| Let the iron run wild | D |
| Like a red bramble on the floors | E |
| Leave the mill and the foundry and the mine | F |
| And the shrapnel lying on the wharves | E |
| Leave the desk and the shuttle and the loom | G |
| Come | H |
| With your ashen lives | E |
| Your lives like dust in your hands | E |
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| I call upon you workers | E |
| It is not yet light | I |
| But I beat upon your doors | E |
| You say you await the Dawn | J |
| But I say you are the Dawn | J |
| Come in your irresistible unspent force | E |
| And make new light upon the mountains | E |
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| You have turned deaf ears to others | E |
| Me you shall hear | K |
| Out of the mouths of turbines | E |
| Out of the turgid throats of engines | E |
| Over the whistling steam | L |
| You shall hear me shrilly piping | M |
| Your mills I shall enter like the wind | N |
| And blow upon your hearts | E |
| Kindling the slow fire | O |
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| They think they have tamed you workers | E |
| Beaten you to a tool | P |
| To scoop up hot honor | O |
| Till it be cool | P |
| But out of the passion of the red frontiers | E |
| A great flower trembles and burns and glows | E |
| And each of its petals is a people | Q |
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| Come forth you workers | E |
| Clinging to your stable | Q |
| And your wisp of warm straw | R |
| Let the fires grow cold | B |
| Let the iron spill out of the troughs | E |
| Let the iron run wild | D |
| Like a red bramble on the floors | E |
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| As our forefathers stood on the prairies | E |
| So let us stand in a ring | M |
| Let us tear up their prisons like grass | E |
| And beat them to barricades | E |
| Let us meet the fire of their guns | E |
| With a greater fire | O |
| Till the birds shall fly to the mountains | E |
| For one safe bough | S |
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