The Day Of Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGH IIJJFar I hear the bugle blow | A |
To call me where I would not go | A |
And the guns begin the song | B |
'Soldier fly or stay for long ' | C |
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Comrade if to turn and fly | D |
Made a soldier never die | D |
Fly I would for who would not | E |
'Tis sure no pleasure to be shot | E |
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But since the man that runs away | F |
Lives to die another day | F |
And cowards' funerals when they come | G |
Are not wept so well at home | H |
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Therefore though the best is bad | I |
Stand and do the best my lad | I |
Stand and fight and see your slain | J |
And take the bullet in your brain | J |
Alfred Edward Housman
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