The Monster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJJLILI| When we might make with happy heart | A |
| This world a paradise | B |
| With bombs we blast brave men apart | A |
| With napalm carbonize | C |
| Where we might till the sunny soil | D |
| And sing for joy of life | E |
| We spend our treasure and our toil | D |
| In bloody strife | E |
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| The fields of wheat are sheening gold | F |
| The flocks have silver fleece | G |
| The signs are sweetly manifold | F |
| Of plenty praise and peace | G |
| Yet see The sky is like a cowl | H |
| Where grimy toilers bore | I |
| The shards of steel that feed the foul | H |
| Red maw of War | I |
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| Instead of butter give us guns | J |
| Instead of sugur shells | K |
| Devoted mothers bear your sons | J |
| To glut still hotter hells | J |
| Alas When will mad mankind wake | L |
| To banish evermore | I |
| And damn for God in Heaven's sake | L |
| Mass Murder WAR | I |
Robert William Service
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