Macdonough's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIJI KLMNOPOPQ BBRS| Whether the State can loose and bind | A |
| In Heaven as well as on Earth | B |
| If it be wiser to kill mankind | A |
| Before or after the birth | B |
| These are matters of high concern | C |
| Where State kept schoolmen are | D |
| But Holy State we have lived to learn | C |
| Endeth in Holy War | E |
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| Whether The People be led by The Lord | F |
| Or lured by the loudest throat | G |
| If it be quicker to die by the sword | F |
| Or cheaper to die by vote | G |
| These are things we have dealt with once | H |
| And they will not rise from their grave | I |
| For Holy People however it runs | J |
| Endeth in wholly Slave | I |
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| Whatsoever for any cause | K |
| Seeketh to take or give | L |
| Power above or beyond the Laws | M |
| Suffer it not to live | N |
| Holy State or Holy King | O |
| Or Holy People's Will | P |
| Have no truck with the senseless thing | O |
| Order the guns and kill | P |
| Saying after me | Q |
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| Once there was The People Terror gave it birth | B |
| Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth | B |
| Earth arose and crushed it Listen O ye slain | R |
| Once there was The People it shall never be again | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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