The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG HI JK LC MNO PGThe 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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