A Plea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| Why need we newer arms invent | A |
| Poor peoples to destroy | B |
| With what we have let's be content | A |
| And perfect their employ | B |
| With weapons that may millions kill | C |
| Why should we seek for more | D |
| A brighter spate of blood to spill | C |
| A deeper sea of gore | D |
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| The lurid blaze of atom light | E |
| Vast continents will blind | F |
| And steep in centuries of night | E |
| Despairing humankind | F |
| So let's be glad for gun and blade | G |
| To fight with honest stuff | H |
| Are tank block buster hand grenade | G |
| And napalm not enough | H |
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| Oh to go back a thousand years | I |
| When arrows winged their way | J |
| When foemen fell upon the spears | I |
| And swords were swung to slay | J |
| Behold Belching in Heaven black | K |
| Mushrooms obscene | L |
| Dear God the brave days give us back | K |
| When wars were clean | L |
Robert Service
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