The Fathers Of Our Fathers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDCEB BFGFGFGB BHIHJKJB| Written February on reading the latest news concerning the battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor February th | A |
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| The fathers of our fathers they were men | B |
| What are we who now stand idle while we see our seamen slain | C |
| Who behold our flag dishonored and still pause | D |
| Are we blind to her duplicity the treachery of Spain | C |
| To the rights she scorns of nations and their laws | D |
| Let us rise a mighty people let us wipe away the stain | C |
| Must we wait till she insult us for a cause | E |
| The fathers of our fathers they were men | B |
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| The fathers of our fathers they were men | B |
| Had they nursed delay as we do had they sat thus deaf and dumb | F |
| With these cowards compromising year by year | G |
| Never hearing what they should hear never saying what should come | F |
| While the courteous mask of Spain still hid a sneer | G |
| No such news had roused their natures like a rolling battle drum | F |
| God of earth and God of heaven do we fear | G |
| The fathers of our fathers they were men | B |
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| The fathers of our fathers they were men | B |
| What are we who are so cautious never venturing too far | H |
| Shall we at the cost of honor still keep peace | I |
| While we see the thousands starving and the struggling Cuban star | H |
| And the outraged form of Freedom on her knees | J |
| Let our long steel ocean bloodhounds adamantine dogs of war | K |
| Sweep the yellow Spanish panther from the seas | J |
| The fathers of our fathers they were men | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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