To Jane Addams At The Hague Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCB DED FGF A HIH GJG KLKi I SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE i | A |
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Lady of Light and our best woman and queen | B |
Stand now for peace though anger breaks your heart | C |
Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen | B |
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Lady of Light speak though you speak alone | D |
Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood | E |
It is heard to night by every senate and throne | D |
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Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men | F |
Threatens to night to sweep the whole of the earth | G |
Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again | F |
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i II TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET i | A |
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Tolstoi is plowing yet When the smoke clouds break | H |
High in the sky shines a field as wide as the world | I |
There he toils for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake | H |
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Ah he is taller than clouds of the little earth | G |
Only the congress of planets is over him | J |
And the arching path where new sweet stars have birth | G |
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Wearing his peasant dress his head bent low | K |
Tolstoi that angel of Peace is plowing yet | L |
Forward across the field his horses go | K |
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