On The Western Front Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEDE FGFG HH A IJIJ KAKA LMLM NO| I | 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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