Non-resistance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGGBBHHII| PERHAPS too far in these considerate days | A |
| Has patience carried her submissive ways | A |
| Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek | B |
| To take one blow and turn the other cheek | B |
| It is not written what a man shall do | C |
| If the rude caitiff smite the other too | C |
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| Land of our fathers in thine hour of need | D |
| God help thee guarded by the passive creed | D |
| As the lone pilgrim trusts to beads and cowl | E |
| When through the forest rings the gray wolf's howl | E |
| As the deep galleon trusts her gilded prow | F |
| When the black corsair slants athwart her bow | F |
| As the poor pheasant with his peaceful mien | G |
| Trusts to his feathers shining golden green | G |
| When the dark plumage with the crimson beak | B |
| Has rustled shadowy from its splintered peak | B |
| So trust thy friends whose babbling tongues would charm | H |
| The lifted sabre from thy foeman's arm | H |
| Thy torches ready for the answering peal | I |
| From bellowing fort and thunder freighted keel | I |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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