The Legion Of Iron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNH HO PHHQEQHHBKRHHB| They pass through the great iron gates | A |
| Men with eyes gravely discerning | B |
| Skilled to appraise the tunnage of cranes | C |
| Or split an inch into thousandths | D |
| Men tempered by fire as the ore is | E |
| And planned to resistance | F |
| Like steel that has cooled in the trough | G |
| Silent of purpose inflexible set to fulfilment | H |
| To conquer withstand overthrow | I |
| Men mannered to large undertakings | J |
| Knowing force as a brother | K |
| And power as something to play with | L |
| Seeing blood as a slip of the iron | M |
| To be wiped from the tools | N |
| Lest they rust | H |
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| But what if they stood aside | H |
| Who hold the earth so careless in the crook of their arms | O |
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| What of the flamboyant cities | P |
| And the lights guttering out like candles in a wind | H |
| And the armies halted | H |
| And the train mid way on the mountain | Q |
| And idle men chaffing across the trenches | E |
| And the cursing and lamentation | Q |
| And the clamor for grain shut in the mills of the world | H |
| What if they stayed apart | H |
| Inscrutably smiling | B |
| Leaving the ground encumbered with dead wire | K |
| And the sea to row boats | R |
| And the lands marooned | H |
| Till Time should like a paralytic sit | H |
| A mildewed hulk above the nations squatting | B |
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