Dragon-seed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE CFCF GHGI JKJK| Ye have ploughed the field like cattle | A |
| Ye have sown the dragon seed | B |
| Are ye ready now for battle | A |
| For fighters are what we need | B |
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| Have ye done with taking and giving | C |
| The old gods Give and Take | D |
| Then into the ranks of the living | C |
| And fight for the fighting's sake | D |
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| Let who will thrive by cunning | C |
| And lies be another's cure | E |
| But girdle your loins for running | C |
| And the goal of Never Sure | E |
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| Enough of idle shirking | C |
| Though you hate like death your part | F |
| There is nothing helps like working | C |
| When you work with all your heart | F |
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| For the world is fact not fiction | G |
| And its battle is not with words | H |
| And what helps is not men's diction | G |
| But the temper of their swords | I |
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| For what each does is measure | J |
| Of that he is I say | K |
| And not by the ranks of Leisure | J |
| Is the battle won to day | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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