Russia To The Pacifists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDDEFEGF GGHIHJGGJGG KKLMNONGO PPQQRSRGS| A | |
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| God rest you peaceful gentlemen let nothing you dismay | B |
| But leave your sports a little while the dead are borne | C |
| this way | B |
| Armies dead and Cities dead past all count or care | D |
| God rest you merry gentlemen what portent see you there | D |
| Singing Break ground for a wearied host | E |
| That have no ground to keep | F |
| Give them the rest that they covet most | E |
| And who shall next to sleep good sirs | G |
| In such a trench to sleep | F |
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| God rest you peaceful gentlemen but give us leave to pass | G |
| We go to dig a nation's grave as great as England was | G |
| For this Kingdom and this Glory and this Power and this Pride | H |
| Three hundred years it flourished in three hundred days it | I |
| died | H |
| Singing Pour oil for a frozen throng | J |
| That lie about the ways | G |
| Give them the warmth they have lacked so | G |
| long | J |
| And what shall be next to blaze good sirs | G |
| On such a pyre to blaze | G |
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| God rest you thoughtful gentlemen and send your sleep is light | K |
| Remains of this dominion no shadow sound or sight | K |
| Except the sound of weeping and the sight of burning fire | L |
| And the shadow of a people that is trampled into mire | M |
| Singing Break bread for a starving folk | N |
| That perish in the field | O |
| Give them their food as they take the yoke | N |
| And who shall be next to yield good sirs | G |
| For such a bribe to yield | O |
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| God rest you merry gentlemen and keep you in your mirth | P |
| Was ever Kingdom turned so soon to ashes blood and earth | P |
| 'Twixt the summer and the snow seeding time and frost | Q |
| Arms and victual hope and counsel name and country lost | Q |
| Singing Let down by the foot and the head | R |
| Shovel and smooth it all | S |
| So do we bury a Nation dead | R |
| And who shall be next to fall good sirs | G |
| With your good help to fall | S |
Rudyard Kipling
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