No Peace But A Right Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGDHHHHIHHJHKH LLHAMN| An inconclusive peace | A |
| A peace that would be no peace | A |
| Naught but a treacherous truce for breeding | B |
| Of a later greater baser still betrayal | C |
| No | D |
| The spirits of our myriad valiant dead | E |
| Who died to make peace sure and life secure | F |
| Thunder one mighty cry of righteous indignation | G |
| One vast imperative unanswerable No | D |
| Not for that not for that did we die | H |
| They cry | H |
| To give fresh life to godless knavery | H |
| To forge again the chains of slavery | H |
| Such as humanity has never known | I |
| We gave our lives to set Life free | H |
| Loyally willingly gave we | H |
| Lest on our children and on theirs | J |
| Should come like misery | H |
| And now from our souls' heights and depths | K |
| We cry to you Beware | H |
| Lest you defraud us of one smallest atom of the price | L |
| Of this our sacrifice | L |
| One fraction less than that full liberty | H |
| Which comes of righteous and enduring peace | A |
| Will be betrayal of your trust | M |
| Betrayal of your race the world and God | N |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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