The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG HI JK LC MNO PG| The young dead soldiers do not speak | A |
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| Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses | B |
| who has not heard them | C |
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| They have a silence that speaks for them at night | D |
| and when the clock counts | E |
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| They say We were young We have died | F |
| Remember us | G |
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| They say We have done what we could | H |
| but until it is finished it is not done | I |
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| They say We have given our lives but until it is finished | J |
| no one can know what our lives gave | K |
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| They say Our deaths are not ours they are yours | L |
| they will mean what you make them | C |
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| They say Whether our lives and our deaths were for | M |
| peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say | N |
| it is you who must say this | O |
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| We leave you our deaths Give them their meaning | P |
| We were young they say We have died remember us | G |
Archibald Macleish
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