On The Western Front Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEDE FGFG HH A IJIJ KAKA LMLM NOI | A |
I found a dreadful acre of the dead | B |
Marked with the only sign on earth that saves | C |
The wings of death were hurrying overhead | B |
The loose earth shook on those unquiet graves | C |
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For the deep gun pits with quick stabs of flame | D |
Made their own thunders of the sunlit air | E |
Yet as I read the crosses name by name | D |
Rank after rank it seemed that peace was there | E |
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Sunlight and peace a peace too deep for thought | F |
The peace of tides that underlie our strife | G |
The peace with which the moving heavens are fraught | F |
The peace that is our everlasting life | G |
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The loose earth shook The very hills were stirred | H |
The silence of the dead was all I heard | H |
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II | A |
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We who lie here have nothing more to pray | I |
To all your praises we are deaf and blind | J |
We may not ever know if you betray | I |
Our hope to make earth better for mankind | J |
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Only our silence in the night shall grow | K |
More silent as the stars grow in the sky | A |
And while you deck our graves you shall not know | K |
How many scornful legions pass you by | A |
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For we have heard you say when we were living | L |
That some small dream of good would cost too much | M |
But when the foe struck we have watched you giving | L |
And seen you move the mountains with one touch | M |
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What can be done we know But have no fear | N |
If you fail now we shall not see or hear | O |
Alfred Noyes
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