Never Or Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE BFBG CHCH IJIJ IKIK BLBL MNMN| AN APPEAL | A |
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| LISTEN young heroes your country is calling | B |
| Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true | C |
| Now while the foremost are fighting and falling | B |
| Fill up the ranks that have opened for you | C |
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| You whom the fathers made free and defended | D |
| Stain not the scroll that emblazons their fame | E |
| You whose fair heritage spotless descended | D |
| Leave not your children a birthright of shame | E |
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| Stay not for questions while Freedom stands gasping | B |
| Wait not till Honor lies wrapped in his pall | F |
| Brief the lips' meeting be swift the hands' clasping | B |
| 'Off for the wars ' is enough for them all | G |
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| Break from the arms that would fondly caress you | C |
| Hark 't is the bugle blast sabres are drawn | H |
| Mothers shall pray for you fathers shall bless you | C |
| Maidens shall weep for you when you are gone | H |
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| Never or now cries the blood of a nation | I |
| Poured on the turf where the red rose should bloom | J |
| Now is the day and the hour of salvation | I |
| Never or now peals the trumpet of doom | J |
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| Never or now roars the hoarse throated cannon | I |
| Through the black canopy blotting the skies | K |
| Never or now flaps the shell blasted pennon | I |
| O'er the deep ooze where the Cumberland lies | K |
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| From the foul dens where our brothers are dying | B |
| Aliens and foes in the land of their birth | L |
| From the rank swamps where our martyrs are lying | B |
| Pleading in vain for a handful of earth | L |
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| From the hot plains where they perish outnumbered | M |
| Furrowed and ridged by the battle field's plough | N |
| Comes the loud summons too long you have slumbered | M |
| Hear the last Angel trump Never or Now | N |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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