Death In Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB A CDDE EFF E EFFE AEEA GDDGOpen the gates for me | A |
Open the gates of the peaceful castle rosy in the West | B |
In the sweet dim Isle of Apples over the wide sea's breast | B |
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Open the gates for me | A |
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Sorely pressed have I been | C |
And driven and hurt beyond bearing this summer day | D |
But the heat and the pain together suddenly fall away | D |
All's cool and green | E |
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But a moment agone | E |
Among men cursing in fight and toiling blinded I fought | F |
But the labour passed on a sudden even as a passing thought | F |
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And now alone | E |
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Ah to be ever alone | E |
In flowery valleys among the mountains and silent wastes untrod | F |
In the dewy upland places in the garden of God | F |
This would atone | E |
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I shall not see | A |
The brutal crowded faces around me that in their toil have grown | E |
Into the faces of devils yea even as my own | E |
When I find thee | A |
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O Country of Dreams | G |
Beyond the tide of the ocean hidden and sunk away | D |
Out of the sound of battles near to the end of day | D |
Full of dim woods and streams | G |
C. S. Lewis
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