Objector Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADEC FGHFIH| In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon | A |
| to ward off complicity the ordered life | B |
| our leaders have offered us Thin as a knife | B |
| our chance to live depends on such a sign | C |
| while others talk and The Pentagon from the moon | A |
| is bouncing exact commands Forget your faith | D |
| be ready for whatever it takes to win we face | E |
| annihilation unless all citizens get in line | C |
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| I bow and cross my fork and spoon somewhere | F |
| other citizens more fearfully bow | G |
| in a place terrorized by their kind of oppressive state | H |
| Our signs both mean You hostages over there | F |
| will never be slaughtered by my act Our vows | I |
| cross never to kill and call it fate | H |
William Stafford
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