When Will It End? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD EEFFGH BBIIJJ KKLLDD MMBBNN FFOOPP QQRRSS TTUUVV| Written during the Civil War in the United States | A |
| O when will it end this appalling strife | B |
| With its reckless waste of human life | B |
| Its riving of highest holiest ties | C |
| Its tears of anguish and harrowing sighs | C |
| Its ruined homes from which hope has fled | D |
| Its broken hearts and its countless dead | D |
| - | |
| In fair Virginia the new made graves | E |
| Lie crowded thick as old ocean s caves | E |
| Whether sword or sickness dealt the blow | F |
| What matters it They lie cold and low | F |
| And Maryland s heights are crimsoned o er | G |
| And its green vales stained with human gore | H |
| - | |
| The stalwart man in the prime of life | B |
| Sole stay of frail children and helpless wife | B |
| The bright eyed ardent and beardless boy | I |
| Of some mother s fond breast the pride and joy | I |
| And the soldier love the idol rare | J |
| Of maiden and matron gentle and fair | J |
| - | |
| The men of the North so dauntless and free | K |
| The flower of the Southland chivalry | K |
| The best and the bravest on either side | L |
| Their citizen soldier the nation s pride | L |
| Carelessly cast in each narrow dank bed | D |
| And fruitlessly numbered among the dead | D |
| - | |
| Are you nearer the end than when Sumter s gun | M |
| Answered the summons of Charleston | M |
| And the nation plunged in this deadly strife | B |
| That has wrecked its happiness wealth and life | B |
| Say what is your answer to foe or friend | N |
| Tis a strife of which none can guess the end | N |
| - | |
| Oh keep your young strength for some stranger foe | F |
| Let not brother s rash hand lay brother low | F |
| Remember one soil your childhood nursed | O |
| In the past together your bonds you burst | O |
| Together for freedom you learned to strike | P |
| And brave Washington honored you both alike | P |
| - | |
| You have proved to the nations your mutual might | Q |
| You have proved you can suffer struggle and fight | Q |
| By hundreds and thousands lie heaped your slain | R |
| Your life blood crimsons hill stream and plain | R |
| Prove of nobler struggle you are able yet | S |
| And your mutual wrongs forgive and forget | S |
| - | |
| Oh Father of mercies stay now each hand | T |
| Put back in its sheath the blood stained brand | T |
| Whisper sage counsel to rulers proud | U |
| Calm the wrath of the people fierce and loud | U |
| So that their hates and their strife may cease | V |
| And their land know once more the boon of peace | V |
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about When Will It End? poem by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Best Poems of Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon