I Murder Hate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE| I MURDER hate by flood or field | A |
| Tho' glory's name may screen us | B |
| In wars at home I'll spend my blood | C |
| Life giving wars of Venus | B |
| The deities that I adore | D |
| Are social Peace and Plenty | E |
| I'm better pleas'd to make one more | D |
| Than be the death of twenty | E |
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| I would not die like Socrates | F |
| For all the fuss of Plato | G |
| Nor would I with Leonidas | F |
| Nor yet would I with Cato | G |
| The zealots of the Church and State | H |
| Shall ne'er my mortal foes be | E |
| But let me have bold Zimri's fate | H |
| Within the arms of Cozbi | E |
Robert Burns
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